Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is the perfect balance of humour, romance and action. When the Amazon princess meets a man for the first time, she is filled with curiosity.

There's a lot more to Wonder Woman than the obvious. It's a magnificent superhero vehicle, a sparkly love story, a touching coming-of-age and a befitting hurray to girl power...

Like any other DC film, this film too is aesthetically and magnificently mounted. Matthew Jensen's Cinematography and Rupert Gregson-Williams score add the obvious emotional boosters that enrich the viewing experience.

Weak and shallow villains – the plague of superhero films – also infect 'Wonder Woman', and become a particularly sore point in the third act. These issues tend to take you out of the film's experience and while they don't negate the positives listed so far, lessen its potential to reach new heights as a great comic book movie. That said – this is undoubtedly the strongest DCEU outing till now, one that will add a new world of (female) fans to the franchise, and for all the right reasons.

Wonder Woman is a deeply gratifying film. The main reason is that it takes all the trappings of the superhero genre and presents them with the deft touch and elegance of a lady. Finally, DC serves up a hero that's not all machismo and dying to be brutes. Finally a hero understands the notion of love, passion and compassion. This film is definitely the best thing to happen to DC in a long, long time. More power to this wonderful woman.

The Amazonian quality that Gal Gadot displays here is simply stunning. She wears her costume without allowing it to dictate her moves. It's a command performance that will go down in superhero history as amongst the best ever. While she is every bit the Goddess she represents, Pine, as the all-too-human pilot, lends an emotional heft even to the man-in-distress cop out. 'Wonder Woman' I must say is the oddly rare superhero story that breathes fresh life into the jaded cosmos of comic-book super-heroics.

Predictably, and disappointingly, Wonder Woman loses steam in its final act: so busy is it in setting up a massive showdown with multiple leading characters that it eschews the movie's central themes and its grand questions about war and morality. At a running time of 140 minutes, Wonder Woman could have done with some tighter editing.

This is a Gal Gadot show all the way. She's athletic and has undeniable screen presence. May this be the start of an empowered female superhero franchise.