Not Worth It

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2013)

My roommate and I went to see Man of Steel last night; we were both really excited to see this reboot! The trailers looked awesome, and we both (incorrectly) assumed that they would be a reflection of the movie. They weren't.
Bad directing is only the tip of the iceberg. The flashbacks were extremely choppy and there was little flow to the film. Zack Snyder likes shots of inanimate objects and other irrelevant things. The first few times it was artistic; for the rest of the film it was distracting and annoying.
The acting was sub-par. I liked Russell Crowe as Jor-El, and Henry Cavill wasn't terrible, but Michael Shannon's General Zod left much to be desired. Then again, these actors were working with a terrible script that was full of such cheesy one-liners as "either you die or I die" and "'I heard it's all downhill after the first kiss'...'that's only when you kiss a human.'" Many of the action scenes were simply ridiculous (in a bad way). This was especially disappointing, but at points when the audience is supposed to be holding their breath in anticipation and is instead choking on laughter, you know you have a problem.
We really wanted to love the movie, but there were just too many problems. We could've excused some minor issues, but when the entire movie is one big train wreck, the end can't come soon enough.