Okay. Wow.
My heart is still kind of... thrumming. Just finished Wonder Woman on Max and I feel like I could punch through a wall. Or maybe just cry for a little bit. I'm not sure which. My cat, Gus, is giving me the side-eye from the other end of the couch because I keep unconsciously tensing my muscles. He's probably worried I'm about to have a seizure.
That No Man's Land scene. I literally leaned forward. Like, my entire body left the back of the couch and was hovering over my laptop. I was holding my breath. And when she just... stepped out. Into the gunfire. The slow-mo, the music swelling, the deflecting bullets. I felt it in my bones. A physical jolt of pure, unadulterated YES. I wanted to stand up and cheer in my living room. It was just... so much.
It reminded me of this one time in high school, I had to give a presentation in my history class that I was absolutely not prepared for. I walked up to the front of the room and my hands were shaking so much I could barely hold my notecards. Everyone was staring. And for a second, I thought about just running out. But then I just... took a breath and started talking. I completely bombed the presentation, like, F-minus level bombing, but for that one second, when I decided to just step into the gunfire, I felt like a god. Anyway.
But honestly, the part that's really stuck in my head isn't a big action scene. It's when she walks into that gala in London. The blue dress. Her hair is down. And the camera just... follows her. She's this fish out of water, this warrior princess in a room full of stuffy, powerful men, but she's not intimidated. She's just observing. The way Chris Pine looks at her in that moment... it's not just "wow, she's hot." It's "who IS this person?" It's this whole cocktail of awe, confusion, and total captivation. That shot, with the lights and the music, it just feels like the moment the world shifts on its axis. I've rewound it three times. Don't tell anyone.
Watching it at home is a weird vibe for this kind of movie. On one hand, I can pause it to go make more of that stupidly good popcorn with the extra butter. (Did that. Twice.) On the other hand, I feel like I'm doing it a disservice. The sound of the bullets ricocheting off her bracelets on my laptop speakers just doesn't hit the same. And my phone kept buzzing. I had to physically turn it over and shove it under a cushion to stop myself from looking. It's hard to feel the epic scale of World War I when you're also getting notifications about a sale at Old Navy.
And the ending. The whole Ares reveal. I thought I loved it when I was watching it. The emotional payoff of her having to kill the god of war, the man who she thought was her ally. It's heavy stuff. But now that I'm sitting here typing this... was the whole CGI lightning-throwing thing a bit much? Did it cheapen it? It felt a little... standard superhero movie ending, you know? After two hours of something that felt a little more grounded, a little more heartfelt, it suddenly became a video game boss battle. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being cynical. Maybe I need to just accept the lightning-throwing.
Gal Gadot, though. She's just... luminous. It's not just that she's beautiful, it's that she believes it. You believe that she believes in love and truth. It could have been so cheesy. It SHOULD have been so cheesy. But she sells it. There's this scene where she's trying on different outfits and she's just so earnest and confused and it's genuinely funny and charming. Chris Pine is great too, obviously. The guy has charisma for days. Their chemistry is what holds the whole thing together. It makes you care when things go boom.
So yeah. I'm a mess. I feel empowered and sad and jazzed up and ready for bed all at once. My apartment feels too small. I need to go look at the stars or something. Or just re-watch that gala scene one more time. Okay, just one more time.
8.5/10
-Alex
Trailer English - https://youtu.be/1Q8fG0TtVAY?si=06KsMzBgotvh7hsC
Trailer Hindi - https://youtu.be/KLK4sYQ92f0?si=kdLiW2laMoFpthWA
Review English - https://youtu.be/bp-rYXAjRpY?si=mHXxrrNtgf4j1kQ0
Review Hindi - https://youtu.be/2akey1jcj80?si=LGF_CwtLKr1Dwc-o
EXPLANATION hindi - https://youtu.be/-YZK8px1iWo?si=FxYQyMm4WH8iB4hA
EXPLANATION english - https://youtu.be/u1NlmFa0-68?si=8fd7kJt5FQ_yekl2