Super Action but Rotten Story or Awesome Man and Dull Hero

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2018)

It's time to take a look at the Superman in Man of Steel. It's been years since this movie came out and I think it's time to take another look at this movie.
People have already established that this movie has nothing to do with Superman. All we see is some living god that doesn't have a personality and only exists to fight other living gods. One thing that people never seem to talk about is that Superman must have some serious problems being super. Imagine trying to open the door to an office building or any building. Imagine trying to write with a pencil, or play sports with someone, or put on clothes or give somebody a high five or hug or fist bump! He can only do normal things when he's around Lois Lane. People who have seen this movie know how lackluster this romance is and you can probably get the picture.
But you wanna know what the rest of the movie is like? Does Private Jimmy ever show up, do we ever see Superman save anybody, does the John Williams theme ever make an appearance? Or anything else that has to do with Superman? Let's find out.
As the movie begins we start with a cool Krypton sequence which shows some cool imagery and effects, however the Cinematography is kinda lackluster. Nothing really feels that cool or breathtaking, just kinda meh. The acting itself kinda works and I like Russel Crowe and Michael Shannon in this movie. Zod shows some clear motivations for his actions as does Jor El which is nice, just kinda sucks that Superman himself doesn't get much motivation. No effort is put to him. He just has to save the world and hang out with Lois Lane, just do that and people will think it's a Superman movie! Do they think we're idiots!
Anyway there are tons of moments where we see Superman in the most literal of terms to describe his personality. He's the Man of Steel and he's unbreakable so let's have everything else get destroyed. He's a Christ Figure so let's show him in a church. Was this designed by a human being, or did Zach Synder just feed his story into a computer to get a basic bluprint for the rough draft of the screenplay and then use THIS for the movie. By the time the middle act starts we barely have a developed Clark Kent and he's suddenly forced to be a big superhero. What does he do, save people, no! He fights Zod and his gang in the streets and buildings and destroys spaceships! Oh, and character development, he falls in love with Lois! What more did you expect? I'll tell you one thing this is no Dark Knight. Why does Superman just let all this destruction happen, why doesn't he at least try to stop it. If he at least tried and failed that would be compelling, but by not trying he looks stupid and boring. At least he's not as boring as Lois Lane, good lord she starts off okay but then becomes a lifeless love interest. Does him saving her work as motivation because she has nobody else? Where's Private Jimmy? Why is the Daily Planet so uninteresting? Why are these subplots so distracting and dumb! Couldn't they have tried to make this movie ANYTHING like the original?!? Couldn't it have any warmth inside of it?!? Also, wouldn't it be good to have some triumphant music when Superman fights for humans! You know, a JOHN WILLIAMS remix? Well, there is Superman music, HANS ZIMMERS music! Granted, this works and often the music is powerful and intense, but other parts are just flat and lifeless. If that is the intent I guess it works but Superman movies should have inspirational music, not boring music! If Batman Begins could have some inspirational music that blended with the serious music, why not here? At least the music has soem effort put into it.
After more CGI battles, the big confrontation happens and Zod fights Superman. During this battle, Superman manages to save people from death, yes he does this after all. The fight itself is actually kinda kickass but it doesn't have much emotion to it and is just some thing from an epic video game boss fight. All it is is two men fighting through a bunch of buildings! That's all! Anyway, Superman saves people from Zod by killing Zod. To be honest I kinda was okay with this because I think it helped advance Supeman's character, what a relief, but it's still kinda disappointing when you see Superman have to give up and not actually succeed in a good morally incorrupt way. The reasoning is that Zod would never be stopped since he failed to rebuild Krypton and so there was no other way, which is kinda dumb. Why is Zod so into rebuilding Krpton anyway? Wouldn't he rather take control of the weak humans who can't harness the superpowers that a Kryptonian gets when they absorb the radiation from a yellow sun? Isn't that the whole idea of Superman II?????? Anyway, Superman snaps Zod's neck, wails, and finally manages to crack a joke at the end of the movie. That's it, nothing! Fuck Zach Synder!
Now that I've discussed the whole movie I can conclude that....uh, some things are kinda good. While it's underdeveloped, Henry Cevill looks like Superman and it feels so refreshing to see a mature version look so good even if it doesn't have much substance to it. Also, the music does work for a lot of the time, Hans Zimmer does great. But this movie doesn't carry any of the emotions of Superman. And don't tell me it's some reinterpretation crap like, they couldn't use the old versions as templates but they also couldn't go full Nolan on this movie and make it realistic and awesome like the Dark Knight Trilogy was! No Superman Theme, no Private Jimmy, no saving people, no feelings of heroism! Well, screw this!
6/10