B-movie with an A-list cast.

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2013)

It's been a long time since I walked out of a movie, but with 15 minutes of this disaster left I could take no more. What could have been another modernization of a classic turned out to be a confused scramble of too many themes/plots and horrific writing. There is so much pointless "stuff" crammed into the movie, as if the writers brainstormed every possible plot line and then tried to force them all in. Many of the elements were overly complex and took up large amounts of time- and then didn't go anywhere. Unfortunately there was no time to develop the characters or have any meaningful dialog between the never ending addition of concepts, and we are left with characters we don't care about and messages that don't make it across. When Clark's father died to protect his identity it brings up a great question- would modern-day humans hate superman for being different and powerful? But there was no time to develop the idea, and instead they have Clark blurt it out to Lois ("my dad died because he didn't think the world was ready to know about me"). Thanks. Why develop a story when you can have characters run never-ending plot exposition. Even the suspension of disbelief was too cluttered. Remember superman's weakness- kryptonite? That was too easy and made sense, so instead we have the weak atmosphere of Krypton and no sun. Going on the ship with weak atmosphere makes him weak... but he has all his powers back in open space? Just like the film, I could go on forever. The Dark Knight series, Sherlock Holmes, even the Avengers worked because they wrote clean, enjoyable stories and built a film around them. Man of Steel was more like the 4th Resident Evil- lost, confused and painful to watch.