Would Superman Please Make Himself Known to the Audience

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2014)

Here's the problem.
To make a successful Superman movie you only need one thing...
SUPERMAN.
Not hard is it.
Why is it then that he is completely absent???
Sure there's a blue and red blob that zips from one scene to the next but I didn't pay to watch a pixelated blur.
I came to share a couple of hours with my favourite super hero of all time.
The guy who, when I was a kid, was on my bed clothes and whose outfit I proudly wore to every fancy dress party.
Alas it was not to be.
I'm not knocking Henry. He ticks a lot of the boxes but we just didn't spend any time with him. We didn't get to know him. We didn't care for him.
How could the writers of the brilliant Dark Knight series and the director of the equally brilliant Watchmen get it so wrong. Those films were all about character development.
We got to know them as human beings. We could relate.
Like the Iron Man trilogy, those movies weren't about the men in the suits, they were about the men. It made the moments they were in their suits so much more powerful.
And yet no. It was not to be.
I only hope they get it right next time.