I loved it. By far my favorite superhero movie of all time.

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2014)

Here is the thing. I am a huge comic book buff since middle school. I have more comics than probably every reviewer claiming to have a read a superman book in this review thread. With the lone exception to the Doomsday arc, Superman comics suck the big one. They are most boring, monotonous, nonsensical, stupid books ever to grace such popular icon in fiction history. They have no real world logic. Explanations are retarded and lazy. And the stories are simply not interesting and the romance angles are so bad that its more of a comedy than romance.
Now don't get me wrong, there are some good stories that involve Superman but the main line of books are horrible. This is why they were worthless even during the comic book peak in the 90s. No one cared about them.
Now all that said, I find it insane to read reviews here claiming that the movie was bad because it didn't follow the books, which, oh by the way, rewrote his past more times than I can remember. So why is it OK to do in the comics but when done in a movie its sacrilege? The answer is that the reviewers have some sort of agenda against video. To that I say, grow up. I have more books than any of you and even I don't stoop to such stupidity. I especially love the folks who didn't actually listen during the movie try to nitpick many points using logic but do so using fallacious statements and plain wrong logic.
Now about the movie. I love believable depictions of superhero characters. I always have and always will. I love comedy depictions as well but what I hate, no what makes me puke, are movies that are inconsistent. One second they are serious and the next it is slapstick non-sense. This is what I did not like about the old movies. On one side you have a serious Superman and on the other you have some goof ball with the IQ of a donut as his enemy. Lex was horribly portrayed in the old movies as were the other kryptonians. This is the 1st superman movie that tried to make sense of the world and maintain believability throughout with good albeit not perfect reasons (that many people criticized laughable incorrectly). After all, this is still a fantasy so how believable can one make it? But at least some reasons made sense, for instance, why Superman is weak to krytonite. They actually made sense out of a big story element that all the Superman books in history could not. Of course some stuff was still iffy like why his parents chose to not leave Krypton. Of course, no Superman book has made sense of that to date anyway. They tried to convince us that they couldn't leave any more than worker ants in a hive. The idea is that they didn't have much free will and had to die with the planet, yet they broke their programming to modify Kal-El and eject him from the planet. At least they tried. Its more than I can say about the retarded comic book depictions.
Overall, I thought the portrayal of Zod was very good. He was much more menacing than in the books or in older movies. He was really a threat and one could actually understand why. There have been many times in life when I looked at other humans and though the life was wasted on them. From the perspective of a superhuman, humans can look extremely petty and pure evil. Of course, the hole in the plot is that this is also true for kryptonians as there were some who were criminals. Thus, Zod should know that absolute logic makes no sense unless you buy unto the idea that kryptonians are genetically programmed in such a way that they are predisposed to think a certain way... this is soft science and I never bought it but again, at least they tried. Still better than any comic explanation to date.
Overall I loved it. Its easily a 9/10 with plenty of action and lore to keep me interested all the way through.