The Man Of Steel (Minor Spoilers)

Movie:           The Man Of Steel

Certificate:     12A
Rating:          After this it will be at least a decade before there is a new Superman movie

 

Let’s start with the positives shall we.

Kevin Costner: Excellent as Clark’s human dad.

Diane Lane: Really good as Clark’s human Mum.
Russell Crowe: Really good as Jor-El
Amy Adams: Surprisingly good as Lois Lane
Laurence Fishburne: Good as Perry White, but only when in the Daily Planet office. Outside of it, he comes across as a bit player in a B rated disaster movie.

Apart from the above, it was just pants. Briefly:

Disjointed

Lack of plot
Too quick action scenes so you couldn’t really see what was going on, especially on Krypton
Soundtrack too similar to Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy
Baddies that had no venom and were cardboard caricatures
The scene where Clark comes out of the water, and looks like David Banner recovering from an on-set of a Hulk ‘moment’.
Poor special effects

It just didn’t engage me.

Summed up by a scene near the end, where there is total destruction all round. The debris of numerous sky-scrapers is lying scattered all over the place. Tens of thousands, probably more have just died in the battle. The Man Of Steel, rather than use his super human powers to help those desperately clinging onto life, decides his time would be better spent having a snog with Lois.