OMG! What was this all about? Spoilertastic.

Rating: 1/10 (23 September 2013)

This is one of the very few movies I've ever watched where I actually felt embarrassed for the actors involved.Forget the massive plot holes, idiotic behaviour of Kent, multiple McGuffins and the fact that a spaceship thats under 300 feet of ice and thousands of years old is completely unguarded and an untrained journalist can just walk into it via the perfectly drilled horizontal tunnel thats suddenly appeared, even though the temperature is around 30 degrees below freezing. In just the same clothes she wore when she got there. She's a hard hitting type of gal and she doesn't need thermals or anything.
Once she's in there she gets to see Superman fiddle around with some stuff and gets hurt, but he uses his super powers to heal her, just like Jesus would.
And that's my main problem with this big pile of plop. Ka Els story is told via flashbacks to his youth and early years where he travelled the earth doing menial jobs, saving everybody's life (apart from his dads) and never, ever hitting back when attacked. I started to wonder if I was watching Superman or The Littlest Hobo at times. These flashbacks served no other purpose than to show that he was a good guy who never asked for reward and always turned the other cheek. Well, he once destroyed a mans truck and livelihood for being a douche-bag, something he managed to do in a busy truck stop without anybody hearing or seeing it, and only eliciting a look of mild bemusement from his erstwhile assailant.
So when he reaches the age of 33, duh, its time to reveal himself to mankind and show off his superpowers. The baddies are here and they wan't to kill everybody and it up to Ka El to stop them, even though he knows humanityy might reject him. They won't, obviously. He's the 2nd coming and we all know how well that went for us last time we were mean to the saviour.
So the baddies come with their guns and they have a pretty impressive fight that takes them into space,through a gazillion skyscrapers via exploding trains and stuff like that, but they never seem to leave the same city block and always crash back to the exact same place. Right where the good guys are. And the cardboard cut out Lane.
Now, during this fight, the baddies are crushed, burned, shot, bombed, dropped from hundreds of feet, smashed with huge steel bars etc, but Ka El manages to kill Zod with the old 'break your neck like this HEEEEAAURGH!!'choke hold trick that you'd expect to see in an especially crappy Chuck Norris flick.
The dialogue in the film was dreadful, the acting atrocious, the characters completely one dimensional (especially Zod), the underlying Christian message lurked like a fart on a cold day and stank the whole thing up. It is a terrible, terrible action film made worse by the over use of special effects and sentimentality in all the wrong places.
I wish IMDb would give us a 0-10 option, but as I can't go lower than 1- 10 then this gets that. It's appalling. Oh, and add to the rest of the garbage the typical scene where the Americans hear the news of imminent attack in a massive military complex while the rest of the world lives in huts and tents made of Yak.