Clark Clarkson

After reading a brief synopsis for this film I came in with lowered expectations than I usually would, but they were quickly blown away by the visuals and individual performances. After a brief flashback the film explodes into exuberant cliched 80s setting, which at first felt weird for a superhero film but makes for a welcome change from the usual DCU ‘trying to be gritty but not too gritty’ style that they can never quite achieve a perfect balance. Instead this film had more of a vibrance which lures the viewer into accepting an invitation to pure escapism into this brighter landscape that differs from the realities 2020 have bought us. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine did their usually superb job bring into the respective characters to life once again (which is literal in the storyline for Steve Trevor) but it’s Pedro Pascal and Kristen Wiig as the antagonists that deliver show-stealing performances. Both revelled in making their individual roles relatable, only to evolve them into being far from ordinary and sinisterly unsettling yet still with a string of understanding and sympathy attached for their respective plights and story arcs. This film had a plot that I should have turned my nose up at... but it did it’s job and made me forget about what a rotten year we’ve all just left behind. Fantastically bizarre, creatively twisted and heroically colourful are the only ways I can sum up the film in a few words.