Went to see it expecting very little... (spoilers)

Rating: 4/10 (17 June 2013)

Well, just finished watching this like 30 minutes ago. I REALLY wanted to like this movie, it's been a long time since I got excited about a Superman movie, but this one failed so hard it's not even funny. Won't bore you with too many details, but here are the 5 things that made me hate the movie;
1.- Too much Matrix , from the baby pods, to the fight scenes this felt like it ripped off the Matrix movies a lot, made me feel like I was watching this movie for the third time...
2.- Henry Cavill, the dude is RIPPED, best physique for a guy playing Superman ever, but he REALLY, REALLY sucks as an actor! half of the movie the guy looks as if he's trying to pass a kidney stone, his reactions are too melodramatic, and his performance feels forced throughout the entire movie.
3.- Too dark. Superman is supposed to be uplifting, exciting, and yes... a bit funny. The reason I disliked Returns was because of the dark tone, when Batman Begins was remade as a dark superhero movie, it was new, and exciting. When they took the same approach for James Bond, it felt right. But that is because those characters can benefit from such an angle, Superman is NOT a dark and depressing hero, this movie made him feel so.
4.- The LOVE story. This is another failed attempt at doing Lois Lane justice, even though it was better than Returns, it still didn't feel like it was Lois Lane on the screen, and the fact that they make them fall in love after spending around 15 minutes of screen time together was utterly ridiculous. They could have dragged it on and wrapped up the romance in a third movie, the fact that they were holding hands at their second meeting was not plausible at all.
5.- CLARK KENT. OK... I know that the Clark Kent persona is an integral part of the Superman lore, but let's remember that this whole plot device was created in the 50's, when everyone was a bit more...stupid. It's hard to make Kent look too different from Superman, but giving the guy a pair of glasses is NOT enough by any measure! They could have at least changed his hair and dorkier glasses to make him look like a klutz, make him stutter, make him nervous, make him... less like a freaking ripped, handsome guy with glasses.
I know many people liked the movie, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind about the whole thing or debate on it's merit, this is just a simple post to reflect my OWN, PERSONAL thoughts about a movie I went to see expecting very little, and coming out feeling like I should have expected LESS.