Nothing special

Rating: 5/10 (4 July 2013)

I like most Zack Snyder's movies. He has a very strong visual style. The stories do not always match up. But granted for that.
There is however nothing special about "Man of Steel". It was obviously too expensive for any experiment, for anything different but mainstream.
The opening on Krypton shows off its production value. Yet neither pictures nor story leave a profound impression. The following act is the most interesting part of the movie, when Superman roams through the world. Hiding, without a goal or a reason.
That does not last all too long.
Lois Lane enters the story, a not so pretty and not so interesting character. Fortunately the battle starts pretty soon.
So you sit in the cinema and think to yourself: "Action, finally..." But it does not differ from "Transformers", from "Avengers" (which had some humor, making it cool), "G.I.Joe", "Godzilla", and all the like. But this smashing and crushing is way too long. It is as if someone had turned the volume to max and just left it that way.
"Man of Steel" is better than "Superman returns" but definitely not a very good film. It is just about average.