This wasn't Superman

Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2013)

I understand it wasn't meant to be a re-boot, which is great. However, the change to the story was too much for me. The shaking camera was too much, the graphics were too much, and the use of the Kryptonian spaceships was too much. Also, if Zod, et al, were bothered by their x-ray vision and super hearing as much as they were, then how did Clark not cry every single day as a baby/toddler/child, until he grasped how to get a hold of it? He never would have been able to attend school, church, or any other function, b/c he wouldn't have been able to bear what he was experiencing. Also, it took Clark until he was around 10(?) to finally grasp it, but Zod did it by his second exposure? Zod's demise was seriously as easy as breaking his neck? Why didn't he just do that to begin with? Was it a morality issue? If so, did he just finally realize that is what he had to do? Also, I didn't like that the "Jor-el program" reacted to everyone, as if he were alive, and even knew Lois' last name. Really? What kind of technology is that? And it was really in the story's best interest to have a ghost tell a human how to send the prisoners back to the Phantom Zone? I really liked Lois being more in the dark about who Clark really is. Now that she knows who he is, where he's from, virtually met his dad; I think the future plot will lack b/c of that.
In the end, it was entertaining, but not very well written. I liked the actors portraying the characters, except for Larry Fishburne. I love him as an actor, but he doesn't play the quintessential Perry White very well. Shannon did a great job as Zod, but I could have even seen Fishburne playing that role, extremely well. I really hope the next movie will be a bit more reeled in to the Superman story.