Finally a hot superman

Rating: 6/10 (6 April 2014)

As a woman, the best thing about this movie was Cavill. If a guy gets down to 3% body fat, more shirtless scenes are in order. All I can say about this guy's physique is holy crap. That is not what makes superman in this movie hot though. He comes off as being decent and such a gentleman. Dark, strong and silent, with the key word here being silent, is VERY attractive.
Now the bad. While I find it a good twist that Zod was engineered to protect krypton which is why he is so driven to re-create Krypton, if all they needed was superman's DNA, didn't he probably drop enough cells, like skin and hair cells, in the spaceship that they had enough to use to re-create kryptonians? Also, they couldn't find another habitable planet? If they can terraform, why couldn't they find an uninhabited planet? I suppose little boys and men like all the action in the movie but I thought it was a bit overkill and the camera work, were they taking cues, bad cues, from Nolan with all the movement? A little bit is OK, but it was overkill there too.
The kiss was corny as hell. Really? A 5 year-old could have directed that part. The other negative of this movie, no humor. The other negative, several of the women sucked, like the one getting stuck and needing Perry and that other guy to help her. You just wanted her to die. Then the worst of all, at the end when the female soldier was smiling after superman had brought down the drone and she said to her commander "I think he's hot". Wow, talk about totally disrespecting women in the armed services. How unprofessional and how stupid it makes women in uniform look.
Overall, the problem with superman in this day and age is selling an old premise to a sophisticated audience. How are we supposed to buy that the US govt cannot identify who superman is, that people cannot recognize Clark as superman just because he wears glasses, that anyone works at a newspaper anymore. It's hard to believe.
Directing wise, I prefer superman returns. It had some beautiful scenes. Bryan Singer is underrated. This Zack Snyder seems puerile, which may be appealing to 10 year olds. Storyline wise though, both supermans are weak. Again, the best thing about this superman is he sets hearts aflutter and that is not so much about his looks, but his demeanor.