While not on the level some reviews put it, I thought WW was an excellent movie on the standards of superhero flicks.
This is nothing against you, DH, but oh where do I begin.
The protag is a Mary Sue of the most typical variety. She is never scratched, dented, or made dirty in any way, except during a single scene at the beginning of the movie in which she inexplicably fights at roughly 3% of the capacity she will display for the rest of the movie. During no point in the movie to you ever get the idea that she needs her companions around for anything other than people to point her in the right direction. The extended scene beginning with her going over the top of the trench was the part of the movie where I stopped taking her seriously.
The villain is a stock piece with the most traditional form of 'Join Me' dialogue I've seen in a while. After the initial idea of the twist, and an interesting design for his eventual armor, he basically withers into a spectacle fight that (again) doesn't even flutter the protag's eyelashes.
The 'supporting' motley crew is only supporting in the loosest sense of the words. You've got a sniper who can't snipe and is clearly battling inner demons that we never get to see and which resolve themselves magically for no apparent reason, a smooth talker who's pretty cool but could've done more, and a native american whose job in the movie is to throw one explosive tomahawk and make smoke signals.
The one glorious moment of the movie where they engage the biggest trope of action hero movies (that the struggle ends when you kill one dude) is beautiful for a split second, and then utterly ruined when they follow it with a scene where the protag kills one dude (and also reveals that the protag in fact could not have been killed up until this point, which begs serious questions about the introductory fight) and then ends the struggle.
Then there's the bloody cop-out angle they took with the love interest, and the fact that she professes to fight for love when it's not apparent she has a damn clue what love is.
It's a movie composed of interesting moments and ideas squandered on hackneyed set pieces that leave me wringing my hands for what could have been.
Perhaps my expectations were too high, I looked at the tomato-meter before I watched it, but it's a helluva lot closer to Batman Vs Superman than it is to Iron Man on the sliding scale of superhero movies.
Again, this is just my opinion. If you like it, I'm thrilled, I just want to rant about it. Largely because there were so many cool places that it could have gone, ideas it could have explored, and didn't.
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