I'm a disappointed girl....

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2013)

This may have a small spoiler - depends on what you call a spoiler!
I'm not a critic - just a girl who grew up on Superman movies, and has loved all of them....even Returns, although it wasn't my favorite one. I had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this movie since 2011, when I found out it was being produced by Nolan. When I left the theater I felt very much like I had watched a Transformers movie, and not a Superman movie. This was a summer blockbuster special effects movie and not much more. I thought the actors were great (although I did think Zod was miscast) The writing was fine, for what it was, and it seemed like they were trying to give some depth and character development in the first half of the movie, but then....nothing... except grand explosions and superfluously long battle scenes.
By far, the biggest disappointment to me was the Clark-Lois relationship, in which there was no chemistry, (they didn't take the time to build any - although the actors could have portrayed it splendidly, I think), no suspense, and basically no romance - although I THINK the movie wanted us to believe they were in love.... That's how badly done it was, I couldn't tell if they were in love or not. I went from thinking "This is a good start to a friendship" to "they just kissed, why did they do that?"
Lastly, what's up with Lois shouting Clark's name while he's wearing his Superman tights? OK - seriously, they should have known better than that.
This film isn't even close to the same level as the Batman Begins trilogy. Just too much action and not enough character development and relationship.
Essentially, they turned it into a "guy's movie." As someone who's not interested in explosions, I got quite bored and a bit depressed with the last half of this movie. Richard Donner still has my vote, by far.