Wonder Woman doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s a hugely entertaining film that packages the familiar with a lot of flairs.

Gal Gadot bursts onto DC Comics’ superhero scene with Wonder Woman, an old-fashioned good vs an evil film that has a scale, that has an ambition, that has the required full-blown finale, but, above all, that has a heart of gold.

If you can forgive the ending, like I have (actually, I did take away a star for it) and love Diana for her inspiring character, the righteousness of her spirit and also the mad slo-mo action, this film will lasso you right in.

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…

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 the best superhero film to come out of Hollywood in a long time. Watch out Batman and Superman, you guys have some serious competition from this Gal!

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.

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.

The best moment in the film is not an action spectacle but one where there is no action – it’s a delicately funny scene on a boat where Wonder Woman and Steve chat awkwardly, the former effortlessly chastising the latter’s human faults. One wishes the studio let director Jenkins delve more into these character driven moments than forcing epic action spectacle as the main selling point.

Wonder Woman ‘the film’ is to DCEU what Wonder Woman ‘the superhero’ was to Batman and Superman in the climax of Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, ‘The Saviour’. The film works for its performances from its lead cast and mainly for the godly Gal Gadot. Hats off to the director Patty Jenkins for showcasing an untapped side to a superhero genre. The film will make you laugh, cheer, excited and will eventually leave a lump in your throat. If not for anything watch it just for Gal Gadot. She indeed is a ‘Wonder’ Woman. This one just saved the sinking ship of DCEU. Highly recommended!

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.