Great movie for the right audience. A modern Superman.

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2013)

To be fair, making a movie about Superman you are never going to please everybody all of the time. The die-hard comic fans will have very specific expectations of the film. Fans of the older Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve incarnation will have differing expectations. So to make a film like this, you'll always be stuck between a rock and a hard place. So to say this movie is bad is just wrong, because it's not. Fans of the comics or the Reeve versions should maybe not go see this movie. It's a Superman for the modern age. Yes it's loud. Yes there is a lot of fast action sequences. Yes the original storyline has been remixed and revamped. And yes, there is a lot of CGI in the movie. So what. It works. People who bang on about the use of CGI in movies; yes I'll agree there are some bad uses of the technology out there. But not in this film. Besides, what would you prefer? A return to rubber monsters, dodgy animatronics and the use of models to simulate everything. I feel people that moan about the use of CGI think you just bang in a few parameters into the sausage machine and hay presto, you have a full blown complex CGI scene fully rendered at the other end. This is not the case, I should know. The process of producing CGI, GOOD CGI, take a lot of time and a lot of artistic and technical knowhow. And in a lot of cases, takes just as long as a more traditional method.
So, the bottom line with Man of Steel is this: It's a great movie. Very exciting. Yeah, it's no Shakespeare or Dickens play, but if you're going excepting that, you are stupid. If you love the comics or the Christopher Reeve version, maybe think about not going to see this one. And if you don't like CGI, Super hero, Science fiction or action movies, then don't go see this movie and then moan about how crap you thought it was afterwards. That's like punching yourself in the face and then complaining about how painful it is. Please!
Man of Steel. Great movie, would recommend.. with the above provisos.