HUGE Disappointment. Just A Bad Film Any Way You Slice It

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2013)

The concept and character of Superman has been done to death on the silver screen. Yet, here we go again. Like the character, this movie doesn't know what it wants to be. It is advertised and sold as a piece of summer popcorn entertainment, but tries to be a "Gladiator" type film at the same time and ends up being neither. It's overly moody in a bad way. I always like Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner and they did the best he could given the material but that doesn't really equal anything special because their screen time is so brief. Both are gone from the film fast like they were cashing pay checks and their agents promised them they would have to spend more than seven days shooting this awful script. Was I expecting too much given this cast and director? I haven't been this disappointed since Crystal Skull hit like a bad punch to the gut.
It was really disappointing. I find it very hard to believe that any intelligent critic truly liked this film. I chalk the few positives up to blind love for the character itself or the flare of Zach Snyder and not his actual work this time around. Most of the critics hate it for a good reason. It's overtly dramatic and tries to play on sympathies that they just don't set up. Character driven? That is the most overused term, thrown around by those who don't know any better. If a character strings together more then four coherent lines people love to label the movie as "Character driven." The fact is, the characters aren't developed during this film. The movie is presented in such a hammer-handed fashion that you just want to cringe. It's all dumb video game action all the time. So sad.
Bottom line: wait for video. Don't get your hopes up. Some of this is interesting to watch but NONE of it can be classified as high quality in any way. You'll need your fast forward button if you're at all an intelligent movie fan.