Superman at its best!

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2014)

I've never really been a big fan of Superman, There seems to be something about him i just don't find interesting as a character, I haven't seen the 1978 Superman or any of its sequels but i do plan on watching them one day. But when i went to see The Dark Knight Rises the first trailer for this came on and i thought it looked pretty cool, I liked how a lot of the more recent superhero films are taking a more darker realistic take on superheroes and how they would actually be seen by people in today's world. So when this film was in cinema i saw it quite quickly like the day it was released and i thoroughly enjoyed all of it! It gave me a new interest in the Superman character and i felt it has given DC Comic films a great chance to start their own film universe similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is most of the stuff about Man of Steel that i liked.
* Im a fan of Zack Snyder, theirs not many films i don't like by him, I loved Watchmen and 300 so i felt he would do a great job doing another 'comic to film' adaption.
* You can tell its taken influence from the Chris Nolan Dark Knight films as it has that dark and serious feel to it throughout, which i think is a good thing, if it worked on the Dark Knight films it will work great on this too.
*Henry Cavill is amazing as Superman! he looks the part and i felt he acted perfectly for the character he portrayed.
* Russell Crowe plays Superman's real dad Jor-El, and he does it amazingly as well! the first 20 minutes felt like a Jor-El movie which was pretty cool!
*The fight at the end with Zod is insane! i loved it, yeah it was total destruction to the city and loads of people probably got killed but this is Superman's first real fight, obviously hes not going to be able to lure Zod away to a quiet field to fight. At this point Superman is still a amateur, plus the neck breaking is amazing. I know a lot of people didn't like what Superman did to Zod and said it was out of character, but he had to do it! he was going to blast a poor family point blank with laser eyes! i personally felt it was an amazing fight.
* There is a bunch of cameos and references to other DC comics which i really like, im a sucker for easter eggs and that.
There isn't much about this film i didn't like, the only thing i can really think of is Lois Lane, god she was so boring, but overall yeah its a class film and its worth watching! one of the better superhero films i seen in a long time.