Overall an awesome movie to watch with minor complaints

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2013)

So, being a life long Superman fan loving the Christopher Reeve movies (even though 1 and 2 came out 4 years before I was born), this movie was really the movie I have always wanted to see. I have always wanted to see what Superman could truly do if put into a situation where he had no choice but to unleash his powers in entirety.
What's GREAT about this movie IMO. The special affects are top notch and made me feel like what I was watching could actually happen one day. The powers on display were truly alien and AWESOME. Henry Cavill portrays a brooding, emotionally fragile, serious, and complex Man of Steel. The critics have all of those characteristics CORRECT. But in my opinions that what Superman should be. He has great powers and abilities and we all know that comes with serious responsibility. We see a struggling man in this movie because he is a young Superman and is unsure of himself or his powers...Can't ALL of us relate to that? If you can't relate to that then you are not human. So, Henry Cavill is GREAT.I also loved Faora's character. Evil, moraless, powerful, and confident...She was great. Lastly, I really feel like the way Zod went out was perfect. There was NO other choice for Superman given the situation. I think maybe they could have showed him try to move Zod off that spot and be unsuccessful to create the illusion of really having no choice but I think that part was just a given. What do Police officer's do in that situation? They made me relate to it that way and I commend them for it. No jail holds Zod and no other way has been established yet to nullify a Kryptonians powers so the fight would have continued and more people may have died...No need for that and Superman did what he had to and killed Zod. Period. End of Debate.
#1. The way Kal-El gets the suit. So there is this scout ship that landed on Earth 20,000 years ago and it happens to contain a house of EL Kyrptonian suit? Common Goyer get your poop together on this one. I am all about stretching the mythology to fit a plot in a movie but this whole education scene was too rushed for me and not mythical or epic at all...To me it would have made much much more sense to create some suspense to this scene and also have the suit sent to Earth with baby Kal in his ship...Maybe, they could have wrote it so once the S key was entered into the scout ship it activated baby Kal's ship and had it automatically sent to where the scout ship was and have it land inside and have the suit float out of the ship...Much more dramatic, practical, and exciting IMO. Goyer dropped the mythology ball with this one. The SUIT is IMPORTANT.
#2 If Kyrpton was going to explode in a couple days, why imprison Zod and his gang in the phantom zone? Wouldn't it be more practical to just let them suffer Krypton's fate like the rest of them? To me, it would have made 1000% more sense to have Zod and his gang figure out a way to flee krypton on their own by stealing some ships.
#3 Again, with the phantom Zone thing. Why exactly was it just the Kryptonian's and their ships that get pulled into the phantom zone black hole...A freaking black whole would suck the entire population of metropolis into it..Bad writing. Should have happened in space to make it more believable. I also don't like that they had to put 2 phantom drives against each other to open the black hole...No intelligence with that one. To me, Faora could have stopped that entire sequence on her own using her abilities. Should have made Superman come up with a trick or Dr. Hamilton come up with a trick...
#4 I think the destruction of the cities of smallville and metropolis are fine but I think the way they handled the alien invasion should have shocked people and should have been portrayed with people starting to evacuate the major cities around the world when the ships started showing up...This would have cut out all the crap people are talking about Superman not caring about innocents when this destruction is going on...They should have implied that most people were gone and the city was empty. I am not sure really if they were or not and that's why it doesn't make sense...Goyer should have showed people leaving so this debate wouldn't happen.
#5 My BIGGEST issue with this movie is the death of Johnathan Kent. After seeing it twice the whole death scene is STUPID. Completely, utterly stupid writing by Goyer. Dude, Superman can move faster than people can see and he could have saved his Dad with no one seeing it. I had no problem with the scene playing out up until he gets hit by the tornado. To make it more interesting and to show Clark that he is not God and he can't save everyone they should have done it like this. OK, keep everything that happened up until Johnathan goes to get the dog. Have him run back to the car, free the dog and in the meantime show him sweating and struggling. Have him come out of the car and collapse of a heart attack...Have Clark rush over to realize that his Dad is dead and died not from the tornado but from a heart attack.
I had a lot more written but had to cut it out. Again great movie with minor complaints and I look forward tot he sequels!