Great plot, cgi and acting. Shame about the shakecam

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2013)

Real shame. Was really hoping for the best for this film. Casting was great. Spot on. All leads had good presence.
Plot was good. An interesting, updated take from a unique perspective. CGI is now very accepted, and detracts less from a viewing. Here, I continually noticed how good it was, especially the superspeed of movement of the Kryptonians, which just seemed natural, despite none of us having ever witnessed the like! Musical score was a bit repetitive, very unlike the composer. The OST will no doubt prove me wrong, but I only seemed to notice the one main theme throughout the film, and yet this was good and fitted. So after all the good points, why only five? Well, it's that juvenile shaky cam again. Do it maybe once, in a fight scene perhaps, but two people standing in a room talking to each other? Started almost immediately, during key plot points and character development on Krypton , and spoiled it badly, for me. Another pointless 'method' is the way the camera loses a moving object, overshooting, undershooting. Your eyes follow the camera sweep, of course, as the constant shaking and unfocussing makes it difficult to follow the object. Why? All these 'tricks' detract from the viewing experience badly. Snyder is now an established director, and has no need to resort to these gimmicks. Much like the way the Bourne sequels were ruined by the same constant palsy, I left the theatre feeling I had been robbed of what could have been a true epic. Avengers jumps ahead of thus due to better directing.