Is this the comic book movie of our time?!......

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2013)

When I first heard about this film I was in the cinema settling down to watch TDKR and the teaser trailer for this film came onto the screen, not knowing what it was until I saw the 'S' flood the screen! I thought this has been done before and superman returns was...meh and seeing who was going to be the director I actually thought this is never gonna work after the appropriately named sucker punch! So awesome trailers aside I strapped myself in with high hopes. What followed was possibly the best comic book movie of our time! This is a stand alone movie and has breathed new life into this legend of comic hero. The story is fantastic and is a different re-telling of the original. Story starts off as usual with Krypton blowing up and Kal-el being sent to earth. But we don't follow Kal through his smallville years like the original film and go and to and throw between his adult life and younger days whilst we see him get words of wisdom from John Kent along the way. And there is a very touching scene where we see John tell Clark not to save him when a tornado hits smallville so his identity isn't given away. Depicted brilliantly! The emotion Cavill delivers to the roll and we feel every one of those emotions as he struggles to contain this great power within! Now the action?! What can I say, loads of it and it was amazing!!! Just what it needs and it gave the film a superb, polished look! The fight scene between Zod and Kal is something to behold! Complete destruction ensues! All the other cast members were just amazing! Russell Crowe played Jor-el fantastically as Amy Adams did an amazing job as Louis! The score played a massive part to with Zimmer delivering something special capturing the emotions and greatness of all the characters as he always does! The final flash back scene at the end nearly brought tears to my eyes! My only gripe and its the smallest of gripes, is there could have been more focus on Clarks past in Smallville but apart from this is 11 out of 10 movie, no doubt about it!!!! Treat yourself to the movie of our time!
Just a foot note to all of the critics and the so called real superman fans....THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL!!! It never will be! Stop comparing it to the donner / reeves version!!! It is a brand new take on the iconic hero! And moaning about too much action and the story not being deep enough is a load of old rubbish! This is a comic book movie, it is meant to have action! And Cavill, Costner and Crowe all deliver amazing deep and meangingil performances! Really have no idea what the haters and critics were watching because I was watching the comic boom film of our time!!!