Lacks charm

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2013)

I saw this film last night . IMAX . 3d. With my daughter . We Are huge superman fans having seen the classic reeve movies over and over . We also liked the 2006 Brandon Routh reboot . Our expectations were huge and we had ran out of the trailer 3 times last month so had no clue as to what the film was going to look like . The highlight of the film has to be General Zod and his equally psychotic second in command Faora -ul . Full of menace and great villains . Henry Cavill was also impressive . Brooding , lonely and looks super ! So why the low score ? Firstly why the flashbacks ? Just show him growing up . How much better would it have been for Clark to be bullied through school and then rescue his bullier from the bus ? We would have cared more . Halfway through the movie I realized , well ... I was bored ! How many times can someone be thrown through 5 buildings before you start to get weary ? Why all the destruction ? Buildings collapsing every minute did not make me feel threatened . A building is exactly that . A building . It's destruction evokes no emotional response . Louis Lane in a car being buried alive from an earthquake . That evokes an emotional response ! Where was the charm ? The humour ? 2 hours 20 minutes in the female soldier cracked a joke . Which wasn't even that funny . So why all the praise ? All the Nolan fans revelling in the serious superhero film ? Dark is boring . Serious is slow . Will you all seriously look back on this film in thirty years time and think "wow " like the rest of us do with the original donner films (he directed 2 as far as I'm concerned ) . Or will you be bored of what will then be outdated cgi . Take the cgi away and what's left ?