Take off those nastalgia glasses, this is a really good movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 August 2019)

Despite some negative responses to the movie by critics and fans alike, I enjoyed Zach Snyder's darker take on Superman. The movie struggles at times with pacing and narrowing down on a theme, but the tone is very consistent, and I think actually complements the story quite well. All the characters are engaging, and the villain is superb. Not to mention the action in this movie is colossal! Man of Steel may not be the perfect Superman movie, but it sure is not a bad one either. Man of Steel gives gritty, pulse pounding action that all other Superman films up to this point kind of lacked, bringing the Man of Steel into the more modern mature age of superhero films.