Having so many villains is a waste, Cheetah being defeated off screen was lame, Giganta ultimately is just a brute that gets defeated easily, Dr. Poison getting killed before she could do anything is lame, if you don't know much about her, like me, you won't even know why she's called "Dr. Poison", and with her being killed, yeah, no chance at doing more, Dr. Cyber has the best voice actress in the movie, and she does help to move the movie forward at least, but once she's on Themyschira, her usefulness is gone, and the main villains are dispatched too fast so Medusa could become the main threat, which, while she had a cool fight, she's an out of nowhere villain with only a vague background story about her hating Amazons, and no explanations on how she's around since she's said to have been killed, and how they managed to get her back, feels like they just wanted to have a giant Medusa on the final fight and did little to develop the other villains once she's around, or explain her.
Vanessa, she's basicaly what causes the entire plot to happen, and she just had an okay development, her motivations are certainly understandable, specialy since Dr. Cyber did some manipulation, but it feels like they could've done more, also, I have no idea why Medusa decided to poison her at random, it does nothing for the plot since the scene where her and Diana have a heart to heart, the focus isn't the poison, but Medusa trying to petrify her, speaking of that scene, big missed opportunity there, that was the one scene where the lasso of truth could be used, and it could be what makes Vanessa stop trying to kill Diana, but nope, the lasso is used all of two times in the whole movie, and it's only to show Diana's sincerity in wanting to help Earth, and as a gag about Cheetah deserving what's coming to her, that second scene could be used as a foreshadowing that the lasso can make one admit they're not willing to normaly, even if no questions are being asked, and that could be used on Vanessa, but nope, a shame that Diana iconic lasso wasn't really useful.
And Ferdinand, come on, you can remove him becoming a good guy and it'd make absolutely no difference lol, but maybe he'll be used in a later movie.
Also they totally screwed up by not having Diana gushing on ice cream for a scene
I'm only half joking on that, but an ice cream scene could show her bonding with someone in the movie outside of Steve and Vanessa, because her interactions with other characters is either limited or just professional, which fails to develop both Diana more, and the other characters |