Great action movie, but lacks Superman's sense of morality.

Rating: 1/10 (11 July 2013)

This movie was an awesome action movie with a great cast from Laurence Fishbourne as Perry Mason to Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman. Russell Crowe did a great job as Jorell, and the back story of Krypton was also enjoyable. So how with all these great things did I feel the movie missed the mark from being the greatest Superman movie since Christopher Reeve, well here is the list and don't read further if you want to avoid SPOILERS!!!!!!!!
I'm doing my list by the worst decisions made in the movie to least important.
1. Superman/Clark Kent does not kill. He has a heightened sense of right and wrong, and would have stopped Zod without killing him. Superman is the Boyscout, and would not cross that line. Batman would be more apt kill someone for the greater good, and even he has principle about killing. That last scene in the movie ruined the whole film for me personally.
2. The first 20 minutes or so of the film I felt I was watching Batman Begins again. You can defiantly tell Christopher Nolan directed this film since he took the story ideas from Batman begins and brought it directly to Man of Steel. No where in the comics did Clark Kent travel on a fishing ship all rugged trying to find himself. The only thing missing was Liam Neeson making an appearance to mentor him and give him purpose. Oh wait I forgot Russell Crowe filled that void when Clark made his way upon the spaceship.
3. I feel Lois Lane was miscast, she did not have the feisty and strong personality of Margot Kidders Lois Lane or Erica Durance from Smallville who I personally feel would have done a much better job in the role. I also feel Tom Welling would have done an awesome job as Clark/Superman since he had done it for 10 years, and basically had the torch handed over to him from Christopher Reeve, but hey what does he know, he was just the only successful actor to portray Superman on the big screen and succeed. I don't want to knock Henry Cavill though he did a great job in the role.
4. In the comics Krypton was shown and being more technically advanced, but also a beauty to behold. Krypton in the movie got the technical part right, but made the world a dark and ugly place. This is more an aesthetic opinion than a deal breaker for the film.
My bottom line on this film is that if you never read the books you will probably love this movie and as a stand alone sci-fi action film it is a entertaining movie, if you are a purist like myself you will walk away from it, and hope one of these days Dc comics will get it right when it comes to these superhero films and stop Hollywood and their directors from trying to put their own stamp on the movies.