Review Score

6.7/10

Wonder Woman 1984 was just mid, it was alright. I went in this film thinking I was getting another mediocre Live-Action DC film and that is what I got. It hit the beats that it needed to and I enjoyed the film for what it is. I will say the movie is way too long, sitting at 2 hours and 31 minutes runtime, there are times where things need to move faster, I wanted to get to the action parts already where Wonder Woman is a badass doing badass things. What we got was slow pacing character building, what it means to be human, and the consequences of wanting. It executed these well in my opinion, but there are some weird moments in the film that was really sketchy that I didn’t catch the first time. Before I forget Pedro Pascal delivers in this film like he always does. He is the best part of the film. God, I love that man.

From here on out there are spoilers so readers be wary. Wonder Woman did rape a man. Like how the fuk can you let that pass in the writing room and during filming. Did no one really question this like hey isn’t this rape? Let me explain what I mean, Steve, Wonder Woman’s first love from the first movie, comes back after WW wishes him back alive from a magical rock created by a Mayan God of Lies. The rock works like a monkey paw as the movie likes to tell you every chance they get. Where you make a wish but you have to give up something in return. Wonder Woman wishes for Steve to come back and she loses her powers. Now here is the issue, Steve comes back in another man’s body. After they kiss and the camera spins a couple of times, the actor is replaced with Chris Pine, and that is to help the audience understand what is happening. But in the movie, they acknowledge that they see the other guy’s body, his face, and all. My man didn’t ask for this, it was forced on him. He didn’t consent to any of this. After everything is done and the world is saved, the guy has no recollection of anything that happened. No idea what Steve or WW did to his body. It’s wild that this ended up in the film. You could have avoided all of this by not having Steve come back in someone else’s body. It’s a magical fucking rock that grants wishes that can be brainwashed, and kill people. It can summon a giant Trump wall in Egypt and nuclear weapons for everyone out of nowhere. I think you can make it so that Steve can come back in his own body or something. Make him come back naked like Terminator-style. Like what happened here.

The movie has cool moments like bringing back Lynda Carter and the invisible jet. How thinking what you want/ is deserved to you is extremely harmful to you and everyone around you. How easily humanity can fall because of how fragile and sightly inconvenient things are for them. The ideas were there but they did not fully flesh that out or executed them well because there needed to be an action-packed moment because remember this is a DC film. So we gotta have those cheesy moments. So the movie, in the end, was just alright.