A fairly excellent summer blockbuster.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2013)

Man of Steel. Without any spoilers, this is how it was for me: The non-linear storytelling is a nice format; though it's not particularly well done, it serves the purpose. The visual effects and overall CG are the best I have ever seen in any motion picture or video. Any motion picture so far, hands down. All the fights and flying scenes are hyper-real, and whenever lasers were involved, I found myself audibly gasping. However, after a little while, it tends to get a wee bit tedious. The relationships in the movie are not particularly well developed, and some people are stupid/helpless enough at times that you want to scream at them. -_- Especially unconvincing is the "bond" between Superman/Lois. Though there are no plot-holes per se, the story is fairly predictable, but then it is Superman after all. :) The dialogues serve their purpose but are OK at best. The score by Zimmer is excellent, though nothing new for him. My only main complaint was that this movie, in a way, compromised Superman's ideology of maintaining peace and order while stopping his villains; not once in any previous movie or graphic novel has he deliberately or otherwise caused this large a scale of random destruction. Sure, his enemies were overpowered and what not, but he should have been shown to try and be more cautious is all. Overall, quite a visual treat; some scenes could have been cut, but it's well worth the money either way.