Too much, too soon, too loud.

Rating: 4/10 (15 June 2013)

(SPOILERS) Not gong to spend a lot on time on this because the film has taken too much of my time already. Not so much the film itself but all the hype and his appearances in commercials for everything from razors to hamburgers. Jeez. The 1st hour is great. It could have been fleshed out and made into a feature of its own. In fact, I would have liked that better. But what we have here is 2.. or maybe 3 films packed into one. And I guess people are just used to it now but frankly all the over-the-top action was boring. I was ready to leave 20 minutes after Michael Shannon arrived. I was getting my butt kicked by subwoofers. I'll skip the narrative fallacies because who really cares, right? But what we have here isn't so much a superhero but a guy with super powers who is not sure what to do with them. I get the feeling Nolan and Snyder don't really like the character that much. Critics of the critics of MOS say that we're just clinging to the old version. Nah. This just isn't such a good film. So many new plot points are introduced in the second half it seems amateurish. Oh... so now they're going to terraform the planet. Quick explanation of how that came about and back to the fighting. Fail. And it's not really a revision of the character. It's the same guy with some essential elements missing. And I don't mean the pointless flap over his red panties.I mean his sense of purpose. It seems the iconic American superhero is not well suited for the age of cynicism. I liken it to the contemporizing of Tolkein's Stryder. In Jackson's film LOTR, he's played as a new age man, doubtful, conflicted, complex. But Aragorn of Arathron was never doubted his place in the world, or his mission. Likewise, Nolan's Superman is a repressed, conflicted man who is almost forced into becoming the hero he was destined to be. Gone is the unflinching defender of truth and justice and instead we have a guy who is really really strong, and helps out the human race once in a while. And about the human race... we're like peripheral in this whole thing. I mean, how many people died when Superman attacked Zod for punching his mother? That little wrestling match must have taken out 30 or 40 at least. We're stick figures. At least to the writers. Perry White little adventure in the wreckage is pointless because he, like most of the characters haven't had enough screen time to generate any sympathy. Hundreds of thousands have just been slaughtered, but omg will these three make it? Ahhh, I spent enough time on this already. I was really looking forward to this, especially afer Nolan;'s work on the Dark Knight series. MOS wasn't awful but nowhere near the hype. Weak writing. Cheap shortcuts. Pointlessly noisy. No respect for the source or the audience. Not angry, just disappointed. It should have been 2 films.