Very little good, very much bad

Rating: 1/10 (18 October 2013)

Well, it's got a nice soundtrack at least. But the audio editing is done very poorly.
The CGI for the most part isn't offensively bad either, but I'm not a twelve year old any more and it's not for the CGI I watch films.
No, I watch films because I hope for an engaging experience where for a moment I'll forget I'm just watching a contrived spectacle and allow it to take me for a ride. But that's all Man of Steel ever is, a contrived spectacle.
This is one of those strange films where almost every scene feels really drawn out and at the same time laughably rushed. The introductory sequence we see at the beginning could have set the stage for a compelling battle of ideologies, or given us some food for thought about our own consumption of natural resources and the value of space exploration. Instead it does neither, giving us only a single trite bit of dialogue to inform us Krypton is coming to an end and that everyone's going down with the ship.
Rushed too, are the the scenes that introduce to us Clark Kent the character. There's not much for me to say here other than they don't make a lick of sense in the context the film constructs for us.
Then we get to the introduction of the Lois Lane character who for whatever reason is in the thick of the action from there on out, just more contrivances layered upon a very shaky plot. I completely zoned out and stopped caring altogether when Clark cauterises a wound with his eye lasers, that garbage scene was on par with the c-section from twilight.
Isn't it odd how a film that continually stresses the importance of a search for how and why through its cinematic language actively discourages the audience from considering these things?