A disappointing movie

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2014)

I have watched this film couple of times with intervals of a few months between on screening to another but almost nothing in this interpretation/reboot hooked me up. Despite the impressive casting 90% of the choices made were a miscast perhaps all but Henry Cavill. Most irritating was Any Adams as Lois, again a bad interruption which is too serious and annoying. Lois was created in a pre feminist era, she is pushy, daring and brave but she will always be the love subject of superman and she knows that whatever she will do superman will be there to save her. So in the very foundation of the character you have a chauvinist premise. Any attempt to change this formula so far was a disaster. When Margot Kidder did her Lois, she understood it and let Christopher Reeve to balance the seriousness of Superman with Clark Kent's clumsiness. She was a late 70's liberated woman but she had fun with it. So did Terry Hatcher in Lois and Clark but the later performances of Erica Durance, Kate Bosworth and now Amy Adams are just too serious, a product of a girl magazines. This is just the tipp of the iceberg.
When you think about the dragons in Kripton, the vague performance of a red neck Zod and mostly the lack of interest in the story that is laying over too much cgi than actual writing it (with a body count of 200K people!) seems that the film reflect exactly what the studios think about comics films especially and it doesn't matter even if it is in superman's caliber. They just don't care. They sign on the check and know that what ever happens there will be enough grossing from the film and merchandize and there will be a sequel and if it will be butchered by both critics and fans they can always recast or reboot. This is America in its best sell or rebrand it doesn't matter as long as you get profit out of it.