So much promise but not delivered

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2013)

My first ever movie to be taken away by was Superman 2 and I have loved the character ever since. So when the teaser advert was released last year with very young superman wearing a makeshift cloak, the boat at sea and the sea gull shot. I got really excited. Really really excited. BUT this just doesn't work. It has all the seeds to be amazing but in the end doesn't deliver. The second half just ends up being a big explosive fight and because it lacks emotion it's a fight for fights sake. The story dropped. The intimacy that began with his struggle with being an outsider in the world dropped. The grainy look of him being a man without a home traveling from town to town dropped. And the result, a blockbuster without the heart, that it promised. I am guessing that it got lost in the editing floor and they decided to go with the big stupid scenes rather than the hearty grainy personal approach. I have given it a 6 cos I love superman and just can't bring myself to give it less. But it deserves less. I am really disappointed.