Should had soared higher

Rating: 6/10 (11 August 2013)

I always felt that Superman: The Movie was the first proper superhero film and here was a movie that married the comic strip action with sufficient amount of humour. It helped that Christopher Reeves was perfectly cast.
It was a shame that Warner Bros has treated the franchise so haphazardly over the years, although they were not helped by the Salkinds.
Here is the rebooted Man of Steel, aided and abetted by the people who bought you the rebooted Batman films.
Well Man of Steel has done well at the box office, whether it has kids running around believing they can fly is another matter.
It starts of so seriously, portentously even. We begin in Krypton, we have Clark Kent having flashbacks coming to terms with his powers and then when he finally displays them to the world at large, General Zod turns up.
The first half of the film takes time to get going. The second half is action upon action as the Man of Steel takes on his nemesis.
The action scene were over long as I soon got bored with the Transformers type of destruction as Superman takes on his enemies. I would say it was done with more verve and style in Superman 2.
It was a good movie but it should had been better. It needed the swirling Superman theme from John Williams. A bit more comic book humour and you really are left wondering what room is there for Clark Kent in the rest of the film series as so much is known about the Man of Steel to the world at large.