**SPOILER REVIEW**
I watched this movie in Dolby at AMCs a weekend back, and sadly I am disappointed. I was never a Wonder Woman fan until Gal portrayed her back in Batman v Superman and her solo movie as the character, so I immediately fell in love with the character entirely. I was excited about WW84 and the trailers looked exciting, however I really think the Covid destroyed the hype because of the many times it’s been delayed.
So, if you wanna read this review and don’t care for spoilers, then allow me to say this movie will disappoint you not as a Wonder Woman fan, but as a movie goer, story telling fan. If you like cool fight scenes with CGI that’s bearable, this isn’t the movie for you.
PRO:
• Actors/Actresses performing well
• Dialogue
CONS:
• CGI
• Pacing
• Action sequences
• Inconsistency
• Golden Eagle Armor
I had a major problem with the CGI when watching the movie, when you first meet Barbra Minerva, you can clearly see the green screen in her glasses for the first half of the film. The CGI for majority of the fight scenes were gross, but the choreography was well enough to make up for it. The final fight scene with Cheetah and Diana took place in the dark, and I really believe it’s to hide the poor shot sequences and Cheetah’s look. The movie doesn’t push on The Golden Eagle Armor, they give you a little backstory and then she wears it at the end, which was problematic for me because she got her powers back, and I really think it was used for Marketing purposes because she removed the wings not even long in the battle, which are supposedly the most important thing. When Diana runs after the military trucks, and the camera shows just her running, she doesn’t blend with the background at all, it really was poorly done there, and everytime she was flying or swinging on her lasso you could tell she was on wires. When she runs after renouncing her wish, her running is extremely awkward because only her arms and legs are moving, it was obvious she was on wires so it made the scene unreal. Her flying wasn’t terrible, but like with the military chase scene, she didn’t blend with the background. The pacing was awful, and the decisions characters make weren’t so bright if I’m honest. The dialogue was alright, but the dialogue that came from the trailer shows up in the movie itself, and it sounded so forced and out of place. Overall, the CGI could have been better, I feel like with the many chances they got to fix things because of endless delays, they would have cleaned up the effects to where they were at least better to stomach. This is a goofy movie to me, a children’s movie at that with the childish acting in some spots. They wanted to go for an 80s vibe of acting, but this was too much, and Themyscira scene that opens the movie didn’t make sense and it felt out of place too, only to shout at the audience that they’re talking about Max Lord..
As a Wonder Woman fan, this was underwhelming. 6/10