A Shocking new Superman Scenario

Rating: 7/10 (26 July 2013)

7.3 of 10. It gets credit for setting and keeping a super fast pace through a relatively long film. Some of it is too fast and excessive, or maybe just too super. On the other hand, it's more than just action and there's a lot of unexpectedly smart thought and plot development at the core of all the action with only a little over-explanation.
For Avengers/Iron Man fans, this is definitely a separate, independent Earth. It might be best viewed as an early 2000s setting with Iron Man taking place post-Superman in 2030s. This is set in the basic, less technologically advanced world of today complete with dirty oil rig technology, farms, malls, Internet leaks, and the overly watchful paranoid military lacking the behind the scenes support of any other superheroes.
This is also a new film variation, a much more modern comic book version with more of a working man's Superman to go with a reporter superhero in Lois Lane. If you go in expecting a continuation of the same old stuff, you will be shocked.