– By Mark Glass –
I’m not sure what I expected from this version of the saga of our most famous female comic book superhero(ine), but this wasn’t quite it. Gal Godot stars as the Amazon princess, raised in isolation until fate brings the rest of the world to her hidden island home, compelling her to fulfill her destiny as protector of human underdogs. In this origin tale we meet her as a young girl, eager to learn fighting techniques like all the grown-ups around her in that women-only culture. She grows into a strong, determined and principled adult, mastering battle skills, but unaware of the full scope of her powers and purpose, as her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), mentions often and ominously.
As The Gods or luck would have it, her intro to the world we know, and her first encounter with a male, occurs during World War I, as heroic American pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes his plane offshore, under hot pursuit by German forces. News of the massive number of casualties in the raging war is all young Diana needs to know her time has come, fully trained, or not.
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