This is a Turkey: Too much bang for Its Big Bucks

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2013)

I wanted to like Man of Steel but I almost left about 2 hours into the movie. Some tasty stuff: some very innovative special effects on Krypton, artistic, new, compelling. The Bad: mind numbing action sequences that were frankly repetitive. Many many of these could have been deleted with no effect on the story. Potential character arcs frequently left undeveloped with the exception of Clark's relationship to his mother/father. Relationship to the villain, to his Krypton father, to Lois Lane, to Perry White all undeveloped. My most prominent memory of this film is the characters standing still and staring up into the sky as scenes of massive destruction played out 50 different ways. Then I watched the credits: multiple Executive Producers all with their own title frames. Too many leaders/cooks in a film's financing and development can leave the food tasteless. This bird is way overcooked.