Man of Steel - Superman for a New Generation - Honest Review

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2013)

Firstly this is my first IMDb review and felt so strongly I had to post a response defending this movie from critics and haters of the movie alike. Now I hated Batman & Robin but I wouldn't award it a 1/10 review as most do on IMDb it's a poor film yes but a 3/10 score is more fair and I'd award it that for the fact it doesn't take itself seriously and was a lot like the Adam West Batman but in the 90's. Everyone's so quick to just put a 1/10 just to prove a point but it gives an unfair and uneven user review.
Anyway... Man of Steel.
Being a MASSIVE Superman fan and Superman-The Movie being my all time fave film. Hey I even like Superman III in parts but Superman IV is the pits. Man of Steel is a bold new vision of Superman that's taken everything before it binned it and started from scratch. It's a really bold move from Sydner / Nolan / Goyer and WB too with the budget of this movie and the future of the DC universe on their shoulders and they pull it off BIG time but as with ANY movie it has its faults. So Superman Returns was average at best and a real 7/10 movie it just got a cardboard copy Christopher Reeve not Reeves as people annoyingly put with Brandon Routh but he bought nothing new to Superman. They played it as a sequel to Superman II and I kind of liked the original theme and opening credits and hey the plane rescue was good but it just wasn't anything new! With the safest way to travel speech and Lois fainting... Yawn. The spaceship he goes to look for Krpton in where the hells he get that from? As i remember he lands in just the one?! It may as well been called Lois & Clark the movie and using his super hearing to eaves drop on Lois in her home? Come on! So that didn't work and a sequel was never made and people say Man of Steel is serious and has a lack of humour? Donner's movies are classics no doubt but would that style of Superman work today? A jovial Lex Luthor cracking jokes with a bumbling sidekick like Otis not really scary was he? It was revolutionary in its day groundbreaking in fact with the effects and its the Godfather of Superhero films the one that started them all and made it credible to make a comic based film. We have to move on. Christopher Reeve was born to be Superman and is greatly missed and the casting in Superman I &II was spot on but it was too light hearted and campy in comparison to Man of Steel. Music? So is John Williams Superman theme going to be the music FOREVER?! Everyone's going mad about Superman killing Zod? Right cast your minds back to Superman II and the end scene in The Fortress of Solitude after Superman reverses the red suns rays on Zod & the gang he comes out the chamber kneels down crushes Zod's hand and... Yep chucks him down a hole! Yes that's right now stripped of his superpowers Zod is a mortal man and could have been put in jail along with Lex but no. Down the hole and Lois follows suit and smacks Ursa in the gob and down she goes too. Non on the other hand well he's the stupid side of Superman.
Now a quick Man of Steel roundup.
Man of Steel RIGHTS :-) Henry Cavill as Superman was a casting masterstroke see more Clark Daily P in MoS2. Russell Crowe as Jor-El again was amazing hope to see more in MoS2. Diane Lane Ayalet Zurer as his earth & Krpton mothers spot on. Kevin Costner perfect as Jonathan Kent liked to of seen more though. Antje-Traue & Michael Shannon as Faora-Ul & Zod were credible villains. Amy Adams will shine in the sequels with more material to play with. Lawrence Fishburne again needs more screen time. Smallville fight scene is the best comic movie showdown EVER. Krypton was simply amazing and better than the original which I thought was hard to top. Hans Zimmer Music score was a worthy replacement to John Williams OST. Zach Synder got it right and I hope he stays on board to complete the trilogy.
Man of Steel WRONGS :-( Last 3rd of the movie is maybe too action heavy with the Smallville scene hard to beat Fight in Metropolis too destructive and worse than 9/11 by far. Superman should have took the fight somewhere more secluded or kept it in space. CGI heavy in the end fight needed more dialogue with Zod warning Superman that only one of them will live and that he plans to take Metropolis down with them. Not a BIG fan of the shaky cam in action scenes.
What next? With all the LexCorp hints its uneatable our favourite follicle challenged Lex Luthor will be back as a very serious Bill Gates rich & powerful interpretation hell bent on destroying Superman and placing the blame of Metropolis' destruction on the Man of Steel and searching for his Achilles heel maybe the introduction of Kryptonite or even Braniac / Doomsday would make a welcome introduction.
Mind you I'm sure the Man of Steel will help rebuild Metropolis in plenty quick time especially if he uses his Superman IV Great Wall of China staring at the wall and it builds itself power!?