Disappointing, despite the money it will undoubtedly make...

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2013)

This wasn't a bad movie - it had a lot of good scenes from which the studio made an awesome trailer. Indeed, I was hoping from the trailer that this would be the best Superman movie of all time, but I have to rate it 4th, after the two Donner films (Superman, and Superman II) and the sadly underrated but wonderfully moving "Superman Returns", a film that had tremendous heart and soul, great character development, a little humor and plenty of CGI action to show off Supes' power and humanity, without the overblown audio, shaky camera, quick zoom and refocus, lens flare, extreme-close-ups, twirling camera cuts and other tricks that made MOS' action scenes dizzying (in a bad way), hard to follow and left me with a headache. And I have to say, this movie was really hurt by the omission of the wonderfully iconic John Williams Superman theme. Instead, we got plenty of product placement ads. I'm sure the studio will be pleased with the money it will make, but this film failed to deliver an emotional punch and in the end, wasn't very "super".