Justice League Reviews: 12 Early Reactions You Need To See

7. Wonder Woman Is Great Again

Inevitably, there's a pretty virulent thread of discussion on Wonder Woman's part in the film, since a lot of the pre-release marketing period was dominated with rumours that her role had been beefed up and that the film was taking more stylistic and tonal leads from Patty Jenkins' work.

The good news for fans of the DCEU's Wonder Woman is that she's great again, even when the rest of the film struggles. IndieWire specifically mention her managing "to escape unscathed. Now in her third round as Wonder Woman, she elevates the movie whenever she’s onscreen, twirling her lasso of truth and staring down each threat as if her symbolism of feminist rage was immune to lackluster product."

Variety says Gal Gadot "builds on her star-making performance in Wonder Woman by giving Diana Prince a glow of molten fury that burns even more brightly than before."

And even The Telegraph's scathing review reserves some positivity for her:

"Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is perfectly recognisable from her solo film earlier this year – they’d have been nuts to tinker – although there’s naturally a lot less of her here, and without Gadot’s full-beam star power to light the way, the film frequently struggles to get through a scene without tripping over itself."

But then Vanity Fair seem to suggest that her being good is actually a bit of a tragedy:

"Perhaps the Justice League franchise really has been rotten from the start, experiencing not evolution but entropy, with Wonder Woman standing as an anomalous glimmer of false hope. I could be projecting, but boy does poor Gal Gadot look so sad in Justice League, watching this lumbering and witless movie lay waste to the nice thing she just got finished making. It really is a shame. What a dumb irony, to end this movie, of all movies, on a note of bitter injustice like that."