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The movie used seven decades of tricks to take away her powers so we never actually got to see her be super. Every 5 minutes another thing takes away her powers. Even in the final battle the climactic ending of the movie she's shot with a kryptonite arrow and has to fight at a handicap. It's just a piss poor movie.
The acting was great, the story concept was great, but the scene to scene plot was just abysmal.
It also attempted to have the James Gunn charm but you can tell the director whiffed it hard. Everything that should've felt impactful and emotional was delivered cold and stale. The funny moments were mistimed. Just absolute piss poor directing imo.
So the movie is actually just Girl.
It’s why so many of the DC stuff is so boring. These are superpowers that have minimum viable characters wrapped around them. The only interesting thing that can happen to them is changing their powers.
I watched this movie, and they really tried to make it interesting. She starts as a total screwup and arcs towards greatness. But none of the motivation makes any sense and so most of her decisions come down to “if she didn’t do this the plot wouldn’t move forward.” Frankly, that’s how almost every superhero movie feels now.
I think the problem with this movie is that a) it wasn’t for kids and b) it wasn’t for manchildren who wear clothes with Batman logos on them. Not a lot of market left after that.