Not really a Superman movie

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2014)

Not really a Superman movie. That is another superhero with red cloak and black hair. I prefer, by far, "Superman returns" and, off course, Christopher Reeve's first two films. In "Man of Steel", the history of Krypton looks like "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley. Clark Kent as a child and as a teenager resembles the one from "Smallvile". But where is Clark Kent, the shy journalist? Where is that superhero worried about hurting human beings while fighting the enemy? The only thing I believe this film brought better than all the previous ones is not the way they showed Krypton (I didn't like it very much) or a deeper exploration of Kal-El's personality (I expected this but I didn't see it), but Faora-Ul, a nice character (better than Ursa, the female partner of Zod in Superman II).
Therefore, this is not a bad film, but it isn't a movie true to the character, and that is not due to the revisionist uniform (which I also disliked). I expected much more of Zack Snyder, who brilliantly directed the fabulous "Watchmen".