A fiasco

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2014)

I don't know why I had expectations about this movie as I 'm not fan of any of Snyder's movies, yet maybe because he tries to be different than the average professionals that deliver us the Marvel projects-others good, others so and so, others bad-I keep an eye on him, waiting for something good to come.Unfortunately, this Man of steel is, in my opinion, his worst movie up till now(I suspect Nolan, whose concepts I find silly, gave a hand here). So we get started with some nice differentiation of the plot we used to know, set in the planet Crypton, which is OK, and even made me think that Snyder could be a good candidate for the upcoming new Star Wars series.Then our future Man of steel lands on earth-at least that happened at some time-and we have to deal with a script that thinks it gives the kiss of life to the myth of Superman, when it is almost incomprehensible(if you want to track down some logic), serious- like(this is different from serious),and totally silly.The lines of the actors make no sense, the plot doesn't really stick together, and there are only meaningless scenes in succession that bored me to death.What's more, the actor who plays Man of steel is presented(I think the movie has a bad effect to all the actors but he is the worst of all)as a muscle man with elementary expressions(that, unfortunately, are not explained by his extra-terrestrial background), and for anything that happens to him we-at least I- couldn't care less;at some point, early enough, Snyder thinks he's making modern cinema, when he mixes scenes from different times of the story line, reminding us of,say, Roeg's- who's that?-playing with time, only he does it so clumsily and with such bad taste-and ever slightly unstable camera to stress the tension, as it is the trend the last decades(aren' t they fed up yet with that overused effect?)-that only harms the final result. I know that there are people who liked the movie and, of course, there is no objection to that(movies are made to find their audience, anyway), but I cannot omit to conclude that very often these days I go back to the renovations directors like Carpenter or Cassavetes(although I am not particular fan of him) or Altman or De Palma or Romero and others brought to cinema in the 70s , things that made me enthusiastic about cinema and today they have degenerated to a pointless seeking of speed and reality impression, whereas back then they were the stuff of dreams.That's why I think that Snyder and Nolan are bad directors and for their visions-as they seem to have some-I have no interest at all!