RageLite review - Wonder Woman

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about any DC films and it seems like they’re starting to get back on track by basically ditching the extended universe and focusing on standalone films. Justice League being a critical and financial disaster clearly forced a rethink on they’ll handle their properties, but that doesn’t mean no good came out of it. Wonder Woman’s minimal role in Batman v Superman was among the better aspects of it. It didn’t stop that film being utter garbage but it did give me optimism going into her solo movie.

Female solo superhero movies have in general been pretty bad up to this point, with Catwoman obviously being the worst. But then you look at the writing talent, and worries start to crop up again, we have Zack Snyder, who I have had issue with in the past, Allen Heinberg, if I’m not mistaken he wrote the awful Wonder Woman run post Infinite Crisis (the one where she couldn’t pump gas) and Jason Fuchs, who… co-wrote an ice age film. Notice how there are no women on the writing team, either.

Of course, Patty Jenkins is the one directing so at least there’s representation there, but her experience is mostly in television. Does this hold the film back? Well it certainly didn’t seem to, as the film made $821m on its $150m budget, more than Man of Steel or Justice League and managed an impressive 93% Rotten Tomatoes rating and an 88% audience rating. So what helped here? Let’s take a look.