A dark bruiting reboot of the reboot to the classic superman

Rating: 7/10 (8 February 2016)

In a world post Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, film makers were finally ready to reboot the superman franchise and decided to make superman a super powered batman. I'm not even trying to be funny this movie made the executive decision to make a very dark bruiting adaptation of the man of steel and it could have worked had this been movie came out before the Dark Knight. However because it came out after the Dark Knight I couldn't help relating Superman to Batman. This might work in the justice league movies but isn't Superman suppose to the beacon of light for people to hope and I feel that in a stand- alone movie he could have been more like the classic Superman, a symbol for hope and justice, not someone who kills his first major villain by snapping his neck. Yeah rather than sending Zod to the phantom zone or sending him away, he snapped his neck proving that the Superman that we all grew up on was dead and gone, and a new Kryptonian was stepping into his suit.
Man of Steel as a whole is still a solid movie with good action and good performances by Henry Cavill as Superman and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. It was a good set-up for the up coming Justice League movies with many Easter eggs and subtle hints for whats to come in the near future. It wasn't everything that it was built up to be but it was still entertaining non-the-less.