It has potential

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2015)

This was the movie everyone was waiting for, a shot at redemption for superman but sadly it doesn't live up to expectations. Firstly it's so bleak, the color is just drained out of the movie and looks like sucker punch, it makes the movie much darker than other forms of superman, instead of being happy and in joy you just feel depressed, which brings me to my next point This movie is way too dark, it takes a page from the dark knight trilogy to try and match it's quality but that's not what a superman movie should be, superman is supposed to contrast batman not be like him, superman is supposed to be a beacon of light and hope in the darkness not be dark himself, the tone of the movie just sucks the life out of superman and throughout the movie you can feel Zack Snyder smacking you in the face and taking your money it's just not the superman we grew up with. Maybe even worse is the portrayal, Henry Cavill was a great superman but Zack Snyder's direction made him more of a hot head and made him more like a brute than a hero, in every action scene superman just breaks everything and in the final action scene he broke sky scrapers while people were under them, he cost a lot of damage and a lot of lives, superman is supposed to care for the safety of people but in the entire movie it's just him wrecking things and beating people because their mean to him, in fact at the start he took telephone polls and stuck them in a guys truck because a drunk guy hit on his old girlfriend and through a beer at him, superman is supposed to be above brute force not above the law. Now there are some things that were good, the cinematography was great (unless they were in action scenes then it was shaky cam)and the acting was pretty good along with the action scenes which bring out the 10 year old in you. Overall it had potential, the movie tries to bring out thoughtful messages but never expands upon them and replaces it with action and the tone could have been changed to make the movie much funner which a superman film should be, hopefully in batman v superman superman would be less of a bleak brute and more of a colorful hero to contrast with batman.