Attention to details matters

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2016)

There were some good parts in Man of Steel. Superman's childhood was interesting. The fact that "trying to be the good guy" doesn't mean that you are a perfect Care Bare and that sometimes killing the threat is necessary was great. That collateral damage can happen when fighting was realistic. But all of this goes to trash when the movie overlooks so many issues that it drowns in it in the end. Where to start: - Why send Zod and his army in the phantom zone when Krypton was about to self-destruct a few days later? Just to allow them to come back and track down Kal-El? That was a stupid decision from Kryptonians: they just had to lock them up and everyone would have died at the same time, problem solved. Why banish them? Morons. - Lois Lane: takes a random picture, spots a little blank point in the corner so small that she has to zoom it x4000 and then decides to follow this guy she doesn't know on an ice edge of 10 inches because...logic sucks??? And she finds out who this guy was in a mere weeks after seeing him once, but when his face is filmed and then displayed on TV to THE WHOLE WORLD, no one else does? Are they kidding me? - Jonathan Kent: the only guy that is capable of staying up right and not move an inch just to wave goodbye before dying while cars are flying and bridges collapsing in a twister. Yeah right. but the dog is OK, so, yay, I guess.... - Martha Kent: Zod destroys her house and Smallville is smashed while Superman was fighting him, but hey, it is OK! Her whole house was destroyed, memories of her dead husband pulverized, all her life possessions are ruined and her town is a cataclysmic disaster but "it is only material", let's smile on the porch....eurgh - Superman comes to save Metropolis but manages to destroy the half of the city that Zod hadn't trashed yet. OK, collateral damage, I can understand that. But then, once Zod is defeated, instead of saving the thousands of people that are buried under collapsed building, did he really have nothing better to do than french kiss Lois Lane?? Seriously??? - and let's not forget that Metropolis is destroyed, but it is OK as long as Lois and her co-workers get out of it alive, the other inhabitants were just losers, right? All this plus some really meh directing choice (the transitions between some scenes are just random as hell, and those battles are far too long) completely undermined what could have been an otherwise interesting turn on Superman. If you are able to overlook plot inconsistencies, that absence of logic doesn't bother you and that character development doesn't matter, you might enjoy this, provided that you are also a fan of long CGI rumble scenes.