Wonder Woman Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

2. The Frequently Terrible CGI

The visual effects in this movie are completely all over the place, as they so often are in superhero movies, and particularly in the DC Extended Universe. Though some of the effects indeed work well, there are far too many scenes where characters have been blatantly green-screened in, and Diana's movement has a weird, fluid-like look to it during some of the action beats that's rather distracting.

That's to say nothing of the "screw it" finale, where every remaining cent of the VFX budget is unceremoniously hurled at the screen, and it ends up looking rather messy and drab in the same way that Batman v Superman's Doomsday showdown did.

Sometimes less is more, and watching action that's clearly been filmed on a soundstage is rarely as engaging as a tangible fight against a real, physical opponent, but the prevailing issue is that the visual effects just look surprisingly cheap at times for a $150 million movie.