30 Year Veteran Superman Fan: Strangely Flat Movie

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2016)

It's amazing how, even though you love a character all you life, you refuse accept just ANYTHING given to you as media interpretation. That's how I feel about his movie: amazingly disappointing car that just can't get started...
I never was that fond of how they handled Superman since Reeve's 80's movies blew out in Superman III and IV after the superb Superman and (especially) Superman II. Superman Returns was rather boring, but I liked it (go figure)...while Man of Steel was trying to be like the Marvel superhero movies. Too much gloss, but not enough story to keep up with Iron Man or The Avengers...because Supes is not that kind of character.
I thought the actors were fine as their characters, but where was the story? There are sooooo many Batman/Superman comic book stories that the writers could have used for inspiration...or just plain adapted verbatim. I still am not sure why Batman and Superman needed to be adversaries in this movie. It was strange.
I...guess...that this is just a precursor to the REAL movie: The Justice League movie in which the true nature of Superman and the new Batman will be fleshed out. As it stands, though, as much as I am a "DC, Not Marvel" Fan....they have a long way to go with these iconic, franchise characters compared to what movie makers have done with Iron Man and Cap and Spidey (two times actually).
If you don't see this movie, you're not losing out. Try the older Superman movies with Reeves, Batman from the '60's, Keaton's Batman movies form the 80's (especially the first two), and, of course, Bale's AFI bound versions of the 2000s.