Disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2013)

When I came in to see this, I had very high hopes. Even though I can never forgive Zack Snyder for ruining my favourite graphic novel of all time (Watchmen) for me, I expected something better than what I witnessed tonight.
Zack failed to put emphasis on the points that matter the most. To me, Clark's relationship with Jonathan Kent (his adoptive father) is the most important part in Clark's development into the greatest superhero ever, and all we got were a few flashbacks. All we were given is a bunch of CGI fighting scenes and some really bad writing. Also, one thing that really bothered me is that basically half of Metropolis is destroyed while he fights two of the villains. The real Superman always puts others before himself, he would never cause this many casualties.
I also didn't find the villain to be exciting in any kind of way. What I learned throughout the years is that a good superhero movie must always have a great villain, especially a serious movie like this one. But I will tell you this: The 2nd instalment of this movie will be good. I always found Lex Luther to be an interesting villain and if they are able to cast well, we should be looking forward to a great movie. I wasn't a huge fan of Batman Begins, but The Dark Knight is one of my favourite movies to this day. And with Christopher Nolan as producer, he will make sure he doesn't make the same mistakes he made in Man of Steel.