So many clichÃ©s that they ought to be ashamed of themselves

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2013)

This movie ripped off so many other movies that it got ridiculous.
The beginning looked like a Star Wars setting with angles and lighting from the new Star Trek movie. When Jor-El shouted, "This is madness!" I was immediately reminded of 300. When the bad guys come to Earth and the lights go off while the TV becomes static it looks like it ripped off The Ring and then later on the living machine space ship was reminiscent of The Matrix. There were several other instances, but these stand out fresh in my mind.
The dialogue was corny with the forced notion of God vs Evolution to be drawn parallel with Good Vs Evil. The good guys believe in God, the bad guys in Evolution. "In the end, evolution always wins." What? That's not how evolution works at all!
Also this movie upholds some questionable morals. To name a few:
A) You should always support royalty and tradition, even if they brought about the end of your world.
B) Superman's foster father tells Clark that it's better to let people die than save them. Really? You couldn't advise Clark how to protect his identity while saving people or the fact it would look very suspicious if Clark kept surviving all the tragedies while everyone else died?
C) In what way was Zod a monster? He tried to ensure the survival of his people (and couldn't help it because he was programmed that way) through any means necessary, something we humans did on numerous occasions. Clark's exclamation of "Kypton had its chance!" was shallow and so unfeeling I found myself sympathising with the so-called bad guy.
I gave this a 5/10 because of the good special effects and enjoyable action scenes (even though most big budget movies are expected to have them now), but story-wise this needs a big clarification for whom we are actually supposed to root for. Oh, and please stop ripping off other movies.