MOVIE REVIEWS
WW84: The Superhero Movie We Didn’t Need in 2020
After a run time of 2 hours and 29 minutes, I had just one question: "Is that it?"
Temilade Adeniyi
600-level Medicine & Surgery
University of Ibadan
Following a series of postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wonder Woman 1984 was finally released in Nigeria on the 16th of December while a Christmas release was done in the USA. It was directed by Patty Jenkins with Gal Gadot and Chris Pine reprising their roles as Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) and Steve Trevor respectively.
Kristen Wiig played the role of Barbara, Diana’s new colleague, whose kryptonite was low self-esteem while a very familiar face with an unfamiliar name, Pedro Pascal, brilliantly played the antagonist, Maxwell Lord. Pascal is best known on TV for his roles as Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones), Javier Peña (Narcos) and most recently as the titular character, The Mandalorian.
While the prequel, Wonder Woman, released back in 2017, was based on events supposedly occurring around World War I, the plot of this movie occurred much later, as the title suggests. Diana, now working in a museum, had an active but covert life, saving others as a vigilante. The 80s theme was amazingly evident, from the costume design to the technology and even the fitness craze with numerous shots of aerobics.
Diana, an Amazon princess and warrior raised in a land that had no men, was still mourning the loss of a man she had known for barely a month, 70 years after his passing. She had become a recluse in a town where every male was portrayed as a potential sexual predator.
Inconsistency was a consistent theme throughout the movie, and to say many things did not add up would be an understatement.
How does an aircraft stored in a museum for 70 years still work?
Even if it was working, who fuels an aircraft stored in a museum?
Even if it was fueled, how does a museum magically have a runway for the plane to take off?
Eventually, you just give up on trying to make sense of it and just enjoy the dialogue till you realise you’re 90 minutes in and the movie is still showing no signs of ending any soon.
The action scenes, which was one of the best things about the 2017 prequel, gave one the feeling that the movie was rushed and were just hard to watch. The visual and special effects were off, and hiring Hans Zimmer to compose music did little to save the movie. In a year that had seen too many terrible movies, all WW84 had to do to excel was be average, and it sadly failed.
After a run time of 2 hours and 29 minutes, I had just one question: Is that it? The ending did nothing but prove the irrelevance of the entire movie, and I was glad to see the credits because it meant the movie was finally over till I saw the post-credit scene which was equally as forgettable and clumsy. Despite being one of the most “profitable” movies in the pandemic era, two weeks after its release, it has still not made up to half of its 200 million USD budget at the box office, which is hardly surprising. Looking on the bright side, I finally have the answer to one question: “Would you ever re-watch Wonder Woman 1984?” HELL NO!
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Good day sir. I think you either did not watch the movie or you watched it with an intent to criticize. The movie, yes did not tick all the boxes both to call it a failure…haba!
How did a museum magically have a runway? Magically kè? There was about three aircrafts there. If you had intentions of having aircrafts in a museum, shey you will not put runway there, abi how do you intend to get the aircrafts there in the first place?
How does an aircraft still work after 70yrs? Regular servicing.
I think a major flaw in the movie, was that nothing was said about the man whose body steve posessed. What happened to him while steve was in posession of his bpdy?
It had some other flaws too, but lets not be overly critical. An average score, perhaps; but an outright failure, i beg to disagree.
Reviews are all about opinions. It is okay to agree to disagree.
Your question about the body Steve possessed is astute. My guess is that the production team might have felt it was irrelevant to the plot
I would not entirely agree with you but one thing we have in common is that I definitely do not want to see that movie a second time.
It had too many unexplained happenings though and I think I kept watching because wonder woman has such a pretty face and I mean…. I couldn’t leave I was in the cinema.