Just awful.

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2013)

I went into this movie really psyched, assured that Christopher Nolan was gonna pull off something amazing like the Batman trilogy... within the first 15 minutes I was presented with Superman's kryptonian father riding something out of Avatar whilst everyone else was driving space ships... I nearly walked out then but I gave it the benefit of the doubt, I was wrong to. The art direction was excellent, no denying that its a very pretty film, however, this pretty film was tightly wrapped in unnecessary sub-plots, random time skips and terrible facial hair. The film could have been kept to a simple "Krypton is dying, we have to save our baby" and saved my brain trying to piece together what on earth this codex is, to be honest I'm still not entirely sure. There were too many jumps between characters and too little development with most of them, There is a scene where Superman gets his ass handed to him by some giant dude... who then promptly disappears for the rest of the movie, never even found out his name... furthermore I found myself wondering why near the climax of the film we were suddenly following 3 characters, whom had been in about 2 previous scenes and why we were expected to feel for them having had no time to make any kind of emotional attachment to them. In my opinion, the creators should have taken a leaf from The Amazing Spiderman's book, sure it was nothing spectacular (that said, personally I loved it) but it played it safe, it didn't overstretch itself. It kept the story simple yet interesting, the important character count down and gave them ample screen time for you to attune to them. It gave itself a safe stepping stone, much like Batman Begins did. The Man of Steel went into the crazy too soon. This is probably a terribly written review but I blame that on still being confused from the film... I mean seriously... a kryptonian dragon-thing....