12 Most Underrated Things In DCEU Movies

12. Ares' Final Speech - Wonder Woman

The one entry for Wonder Woman on this list, a film that is widely regarded as the one successful DCEU film of the 'pre Justice League' era. Despite this, the final act has been widely panned, largely due to an unnecessarily over the top CGI fight sequence between Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman and David Thewlis' Ares. The dialogue from Thewlis' character proved particularly grating during the action packed scene, with a grab-bag of the worst villainous cliches.

What is lost because of this is Ares' outstanding speech before his final battle with Diana. Thewlis is brilliant in his delivery, his smug analysis of human behaviour making Ms Prince seem out of her depth and making her efforts seem incredibly futile. Ares' insight that humans have a compulsion to fight irrespective of the situation is one that has proved all too true throughout history and effectively sums up WW1.

The speech also addresses the one significant flaw of the film's first two acts, which unfairly casts the allies as the good guys and the Germans effectively as villainous Nazis. The final speech from the British speaking 'God of War' is much more in fitting with the ethos from both sides of the first World War, with war seen as somewhat of a glorious adventure.

This is also in line with Diana's initial mindset, and this speech proves a perfect endpoint to the film- which makes it such a shame that the tacky CGI fight was stuck on at the end.