
What does Maxwell Lord want? More, basically. There’s Pedro Pascal’s Trumpian Maxwell Lord, a narcissistic con-man who wants - well, that’s part of the problem. Like so many Batmans before it, Wonder Woman finds herself up against two villains who circle around and ultimately tag-team with each other. Wonder Woman 1984 is a complete mess.Īnd that, Diana, is why I think I could return a serve from Serena Williams.

Steve Trevor is the main and unconquerable problem of Patty Jenkins’ follow-up to 2017’s nearly perfect Wonder Woman origin story, but it’s not the film’s only issue. This after nearly two hours of Diana pining for Steve indulging Steve in an ’80s fashion montage and a leisurely trip to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum while a god-honed artifact is being used by an evil businessman to take over the world being rescued from car chases by Steve and piloted around in an invisible jet which she creates for Steve and having the most basic plot points of the film explained to her by Steve, despite the fact that she is a world-renowned scholar of basically everything who casually reads Latin as a hobby.

Her attachment to him is draining her powers. by regular human man Steve Trevor then shuffled into an alleyway where he pleads with her to let him go, and she refuses, while humanity burns all around them. Two-thirds of the way through Wonder Woman 1984, Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and Zeus, the mightiest of the Gods of Olympus, finds herself wounded and being practically carried through the streets of Washington D.C. Major spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984 below
