A great summer film

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2013)

So i saw man of steel on the Thursday on the 13th, I'll start off by saying the movie was consistent in terms of tone, meaning it felt like a serious film all around and was well balanced. I liked how they told the origin of Kal El in flash backs that where sort of cut up into pieces and scattered through out the film. Some of these flashbacks had powerful emotional moments but still felt rushed, especially the more dramatic segments like the tornado scene, i felt like that scene was over and done with relatively quickly. I liked this darker take on Clark and how he is more humanized in the film but something was laking, his character seemed a bit under developed and dull at times like the bar scene, i really expected it to show in his face like he really wanted to tear that dude a bit but you can tell he was holding back( personally i'm the kind of person who appreciates that kind of depth) and many of the characters where lacking that. Some characters even felt useless and unnecessary for example Perry white and some other daily planet members. On the other hand Henry Cavil looked great as Kal el/Superman, i loved Russel Crow as Jor el and Kevin Coaster as Johnathan Kent. I also did like Michael Shannon as Zod but actually found Faora much more intimidating and bad ass. The Action scenes where good but sometimes felt too prolonged and eventually kind of annoying, the destruction during the fights was way over the top, cool at times but i couldn't help scratching my head saying" shouldn't superman try and catch that building i'm sure at least a dozen people will be crushed" just a minor complaint anyway. This is a big spoiler!! Superman DOES not kill, I had a hard time dealing with the conclusion of the film and i felt it was a huge change of character but i guess it worked for this film, after all this is Zack Snyder's superman. Lastly, i liked how they skipped most of the romance in this film Loise lane felt more useful in this film but the relationship between her and superman i felt was not very genuine and they even could have saved that for perhaps the sequel. All in all not a perfect film but still a good movie and for sure one of the better SUPERMAN based films. I wouldn't call it the best film of the year just yet but i still had fun with it.