10/10 Best movie of the year and best CBM.

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2013)

The start of the movie in my opinion is excellent, it sets the idea that another planet exists with life, and does it amazingly, the whole concept of how they portrayed Krypton sets the entire DC Cinematic Universe into motion because it makes you believe that other worlds do exist, and if another does, there must be more, which allows other heroes such as Wonder Woman to be brought in.
The entire sequence on Krypton was brilliant, good character creation for Kryptonians, but more specifically, Zod and Jor-El. It was so good that I would love to see a movie, or at least a bonus short of Krypton, possibly in it's prime, but to give you more insight on how they lived.
After the Krypton part is over, it jumps straight into Clark/Kal-El being an adult, I think it's a great idea because you don't want to be sat there for 30 minutes watching a younger Clark growing up, that'd be boring, similar to the hour boat scene on King Kong, yes character creation and development is good, but we're here to watch King Kong, not a boat. It's the same with Man of Steel, we want to see Clark being the Man of Steel, or at least using his powers to help people, which it gets straight into showing him save numerous people, while showing flashbacks to his past. Another reason why I liked the flashbacks is that it brings you closer to the character as you imagine that's what he's thinking about at the moment, so whilst making the character believable and you understand him more, it shows you an insight into his past, further developing the character.
I'm not going to discuss the plot so much, but the last 45 minutes was what I want to see in an action, superhero movie, I've seen many people saying there was too much destruction, how? Zod is trying to kill every single person on the planet, a city being destroyed is nothing, I'd say there wasn't enough destruction.
I've also seen people say that Superman was too serious, again, humanity is possibly at it's end, it's not a time for joking around like the old superman movies, yes they were good, but they were good for their time, for a movie now, it'd be stupid for Superman to be making jokes, or doing something funny because he can't, he's inexperienced in protecting earth, so if he had of done something like that, earth would have been terraformed no doubt. You need him to be serious, and it makes him a believable character, and as Zack Synder said, you can believe a man could fly.
Lastly, the ending with Zod, I've seen a lot of criticism about this, saying "Superman doesn't kill blah blah blah!!" well actually, he does, if you've even seen Superman II, the movie most people critical of the movie are comparing this to and saying it's bad, you'd know he killed Zod, and not under any of the circumstances in Man of Steel, and after, he didn't seem to care. His only option was to kill Zod, because if he didn't, he would have killed the family, and after that, he wouldn't have stopped, he would have killed everyone. After he killed him, you can see the guilt he feels, and how it effects him, it's a powerful moment in a movie, and one that will carry through into the entire series, which is most likely why he has his no killing rule.
In summary: 10/10, don't listen to the critics, they don't know what they're even talking about, the movie was excellent, and if you remember this isn't a sequel, it's a reboot, a new creation of Superman, and try to forget the old movies, you'll love it.