Man of Steel: Strictly Made For Children

Rating: 4/10 (21 June 2013)

I did not really expect a lot from this movie when I first saw the trailers. Of course like all movie trailers, this one was really good too, but I really stopped making a judgment call after seeing trailers after I saw a bunch of movies that actually let me down. I can't deny that I really wanted to see this film because Christopher Nolan, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane were involved in it. To be 100% honest, Henry Cavill was the perfect choice of actor to portray the Man of Steel.
The film had great actors in a really bad script. To be more specific: A script with a lot of mistakes. Krypton looks like one of the planets in Star Wars and have creatures like dinosaurs and monsters from James Cameron's Avatar. Superman's biological father Jor-El, gets stabbed by General Zod (who should have been in the black whole before Krypton started dying) and Superman's biological mother Lara, dies alone in the explosion.
The film doesn't show anything of how Clark discovers his powers in his younger age. Just some couple of details of how he struggled with some of his powers is shown (which is a positive thing). Lois Lane gets to know Superman's real identity the first day she sees him and tells half of the world who Superman is. Since when did Perry White become black and Jimmy Olsen become a female? I felt that Faora had much more action sequences than General Zod. To be honest, the climax did not look like a Superman climax at all. It was horrible! It looks like one of these climaxes from disaster films such as 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. And at last but not least, what's the Man of Steel's purpose? To not hurt anyone. To not let anyone get hurt. And specially not kill anyone no matter what. And what happens? Superman kills General Zod by breaking his neck. They both caused a lot of damages in Metropolis (which definitely took a lot of lives) and Superman could not break him no matter how many times he punched him on his face, threw him to the building walls and the ground and suddenly at the end when Zod tries to kill a family by his heat vision, Superman breaks his neck like it was so easy to break a pencil. I also missed the romance between Superman and Lois Lane. Both Henry Cavill and Amy Adams's chemistry couldn't even get near the chemistry Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder had in the Richard Donner's version.
Like I said the film has some positive aspects like great performances from actors Henry Cavill (the best Superman after Reeve), Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Technically the art, accessories and equipments are way better than the other films. Hans Zimmer's music was amazing and the film is a visual treat. But still, this is not enough. The lack of the perfection of the screenplay and the development of the story drags the film to a whole another direction. They should have worked more on that. Warner Bros. pictures made a serious mistake: Accepting this script. It's not a reboot. It's not a remake. It's just a pretty bad re-imagination!