Audiences are now Zombies - welcome General Zod our saviour!

Rating: 3/10 (18 June 2013)

Yet another big budget (for CGI anyway) film based on a comic book hero - only this time it is a remake of a remake - the quintessential 'Superman.' Forget 'Man of Steel' it is a Superman movie out to get your hard earned money with all the usual tricks of an obscenely big budget actioner, eg Some poor over-acting, Christopher Nolanesque 'darkness', CGI effects every ten seconds that bore you rigid within a minute, plot holes too numerous to mention, riffs on every movie you can think of (including 'The Hulk' and 'John Carter'), false over-emotional climaxes every ten minutes, production design that you have seen a thousand times before (this time 'Prometheus') and a dreadfully, dreadfully, hollow script that should have been flushed down the toilet long ago. Oh, and by the way, the Director Zack Snyder should stick to the 300 franchise (the trailer for the sequel was shown prior to this movie!).
So, any pluses - Henry Cavill for sure in the lead, and Kevin Costner imitating Glenn Ford as Jonathan Kent. There is a good joke about the 'S' on the suit, and a withering comment on drone warfare right at the end, plus, I suppose, a narrative arc that flips back and fore.
But on the minus side, we get Jor-El (Russell Crowe) fighting Zod, flying about on a 'Avatar' lookalike bird, and the destruction of Krypton (eg Vulcan) being more of an afterthought rather than a devastating centrepiece. While Lois Lane manages to track down who Superman is in three minutes (or is it two?), there is utter confusion about where the Codex is (don't ask, it's a riff on Indiana Jones 4) - in Superman's genes, or an old scout ship from 18,000 years ago that turns into a Genesis Chamber! ? And don't scream in the middle of the cinema, when the bad Kryptons try to drill out the centre of the Earth - do scriptwriters in Hollywood have no new ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? Enough said, sit back and let your eardrums get blasted and stuff your popcorn up your a*** - because that's how you are viewed by today's movie makers.