Not flawless, not horrible, but captures the vision of the best possible live action superman to date.

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2019)

From Visionary director Zack Snyder director of '300' and 'Watchmen' comes one of the best rebooted franchises of all time in comic book film. With a producer like Christopher Nolan director of 'The Dark Knight' Trilogy this film was ensured to succeed. Here are my personal pros and cons of Zack Snyder's 'Man Of Steel'.
-The first con would have to be the fact that this film had a mostly weak plot structure, evil aliens terraforming the planet into their original home planet, hmm it's not like we've heard this before in any other sci-fi film...ahem Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a great example. Just seemed very generic, but Michael Shannon's portrayal was outstanding, he put so much emphasis into Zod and that just shows how much passion he had for the character as an actor.
-Zod: As much of a phenomenal actor Michael Shannon truly is, that doesn't deny the fact that Zod's character arc and motive as a villain was very generic and formulaic, they could've done much better, the only element that stood out was when Zod had taken Lois and Clark aboard the ship and he had Clark tied up and said "I have a duty for my people, and I will not anything get in the way of that" or something like that, he again rephrases this before the final battle starts.
+The score was clearly the greatest of the year, 2013, it should've gotten an oscar nomination at the very most, Hans Zimmer is a well known Music Composer in the film industry so it might be typical of someone who loves Christopher nolan films or the dc films to say that he is the best but this is beyond opinions, his work with music in film is beautiful, there are only so many music composers that live up to the hype of film scores and Hans Zimmer is the Man, I believe that his most touching theme in this soundtrack was the 'Sent here for a reason' track, it perfectly resonates with the softness of Kal-El.
+The Visuals: Its currently 2019 and I saw this movie as a 12 year old back in 2013 on opening weekend with family and I never knew that General Zod and most of the other rebel Kryptonians following him whom had armored suits', were purely CGI, it was sufficient, wasn't perfect obviously some scenes that were CGI induced were indeed noticeable.
+Character arc of the Man of Steel: Henry Cavill was definitely the best casting choice for this project, he really sold the idea of Clark Kent and as Superman. His relationship with his parents, his father mainly, helped give this God-like being a human feel because he IS practically human, born on Krypton? Yes indeed. Raised in Kansas and as American as it gets from Watching football, working a normal job, hell even drinking booze like every normal adult human being. The overall to this man of steel is like no other, aside from the plot, Clark's story isn't like any of the marvel films characters' such as Tony stark, Or Peter Parker of which characters I love by the way bo hate marvel and dc both have such great characters.
+What really sets all of those other characters different from Superman like Batman or The flash, or wonder woman is that it's easy to say that superman is not only God-like with his abilities but he is just such a perfect character who hasn't experienced struggle or loss or even felt human, aside from his home planet krypton being absolutely demolished of course, but he is much more than the indestructible looking man who can fly faster than a plane and has laser vision and yatayatayata, he grew up on a farm with parents and even though he has these abilities it's not so easy to save everyone who's in trouble. Growing up Jonathan, his father, portrayed by Kevin Costner who also did a wonderful job as Clark's adopted father, always told him that he'd make a difference in this world and that that is up to him whatever IT is, but that he CANNOT risk himself being caught with those abilities for his own safety from the world, because the world wasn't ready and wouldn't understand what kind of person he is.