The pacing is weird, it kind of simmers for a while and then rapidly escalates to world ending proportions and a huge CGI fight, and emotional motivations are a little thin. The things I didn't like about it were the same things I don't like about most DC movies. Such a nice change, and a great character note too. There was no deliberately sexy hip-swaying, no focus on her ass. She walked like she deserved to take up space, and like she wasn't ceding any of her space to anyone else. Little thing I loved about Gal Gadot's performance that has nothing to do with her looks, Edelstein: the way she walked, especially in the crowded city scenes. I actually read Edelstein's review a couple days before I saw the movie, and I was retroactively furious about it after I saw the movie, because to my mind he got his gross male gaze all over a movie that almost entirely rejected it. And oh my god, the relief of Diana and the Amazons being free of the male gaze. That it ended up being genuinely good, and genuinely moving, third act annoyances aside, was frankly a little euphoria inducing. I deliberately avoided most of the trailers and buzz until just a couple weeks ago, and resigned myself to seeing it on opening weekend whether it was good or not, just to vote with my dollars that I want more of this sort of thing (i.e.
I hadn't let myself hope this movie would be actually good. Yeah, I loved Wonder Woman, but if I was grading it on a curve, it was the curve of the other absolutely awful DC movies.
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