One of those shockingly pleasant surprises!

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2013)

I'm nowhere near the age or experience of any of the hardcore Superman fans and I doubt I'll ever be as (quite rightly) obsessed with the super hero. The views here are from someone who's only ever seen Superman Returns and has shared your disappointment, that film lacked so much and really put me off the Superman franchise.
What got me to watch this film was the director: Zack Snyder. Zack directed a personal favourite of mine, Watchmen. When I look for a movie there are normally three things on my mind: Good story, soundtrack and lots of action. This film had all of those and more!
I think the best thing about this film was the absence of kryptonite, all that stuff does is create a stupidly predictable plot. Predictable is boring. This time we got to see Superman fighting his own people! The ending made sense and the villain wasn't just a screaming lunatic with lots of money (I'm looking at you Lex Luther).
The acting in this film was superb, there was hardly any chemistry between Lois and Kal but I could feel the two pulling towards each other. The sacrifice of the corporal (who's name escapes me) was unexpected and a pleasant surprise, although he did doom that poor scientist on board who saved the world. I loved Zod and his accomplice and I was really happy to see Russel Crowe getting more than the thirty seconds of screen time I was expecting.
The final high point of this movie was the special effects. The extremely short war between Zod and the council or Krypton was beautiful and the destruction of the planet was no small explosion in front of a green screen. The final battle between Zod and Superman was awesome (I loved the air punching) if a little reminiscent of the Matrix Revolutions.
The film made some continuity errors and displayed other annoyances. The director of the newspaper (oh Morpheus hi! I was just talking about the matrix) and his colleagues did the infamous 'run with the path of the collapsing building' and Lois should have been blasted out of the way by the shuttle exiting the plane at the end. The sound effects at some points became painful, literally painful. When the wormhole closed on Zod's ship the noise actually caused me to flinch! These are all minor worries of mine though and they do not detract from an excellent film.
My rating: 9/10
If you're going to watch any Superman film reboots, it's this one! Just bring some earplugs...