The Writers Don't Understand Superman

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2016)

I hated MOS because it was crystal clear the writers didn't understand Superman at all. In the film he has no drive to start helping people. Instead we get the "you're gonna be great someday" dialouge from many many characters. We never once see why Clark wants to save people, just people telling him that he is destined to. John Kent was supposed to mold him into the Superman he becomes but instead he discourages him and then tells his son not to save him from a tornado. John Kent originally died from a heart attack, it was supposed to be something Superman couldn't prevent. A reminder that there ARE things he can't do. This humanizes him a bit. Instead it, "Watch me die by a tornado son even though you can save me and you look exactly the same as you will when you are Superman (not wearing glasses), so it wouldn't even matter if you saved me in front of everyone"
Then when he gets the costume and all he seems more interested in throwing Zod into buildings instead of saving people. Zack Synder made a bland, dry, dull action sci-fi movie instead of a solid Superman movie. Superman Returns was better than this, it least it was trying to be about something.