Man of steel review

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2014)

Man of Steel, an exhilarating film with a powerful motive, I enjoyed every minute of it. With a great cast; Henry Cavill stars as Superman, the indestructible being from another planet, Amy Adams co-stars as the cunning, get-to-the-point love interest of Superman, Russell Crowe stars as Superman's father who gets his son to safety whilst the evil General Zod played by Michael Shannon plans to capture Kal-El 'Superman' in order to get the codex from inside of him so that Zod can bring back Krypton from its destruction.
The film starts as Jor-El warns the council about the imminent danger facing Krypton and that if they don't take action...Krypton will live no more, General Zod barges in with his Kryptonian gang and disposes almost all of the council, Jor-El doesn't bother to stay around, seeing that Krypton is already dead, he goes back to his wife to send his new-born son to Earth. 33 years later Clark Kent is on a mission to find his true meaning of why he is there, after a long period of time, he finds inspiration after watching a holographic conscience of his biological father and therefore becomes Superman. After, General Zod finds Superman after detecting a seam of energy made by Superman himself, and holds Earth 'hostage' saying that if Superman didn't reveal himself, then the Earth would be destroyed.
Directed by Zack Snyder, who made many notable films...and Sucker Punch, these include Dawn of the Dead, a good remake of George a. Romero's hit 1978 Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen, a violent, all-action film, 300, an awesome roman era film with Gerald Butler...and Sucker Punch. The total box office for this film was $687,999,518, that amount of money isn't that bad considering that it got a lot of mixed reception, also the music was composed by Hans Zimmer.
I really enjoyed the film, but I think that was some flaws with the film, TWO mainly, number 1 is the graphics, the movies budget was $225 million and yet they don't really fully use to full effect, I didn't really have a problem with it because it was actually visually striking but sometimes it turned into something out of a video-game, especially with the destructive battle scene with Superman against Faora, it starts out great but after the scene gets longer and longer the graphics deteriorate, reminding me of a certain Matrix Reloaded, that scene with Neo and smith?, but what really matters is how the story plot and the entertainment is shown and told, right guys? However in some movies it isn't the same case (Bad Graphics and a rubbish plot= A RUBBISH FILM= Movie 43
The second and most controversial thing I felt was wrong with Man of Steel Reloaded is how they portrayed Superman at the end, Superman doesn't kill, but that's the greatness about this film, the wrong thing about it is the one thing that makes it great, it shows how the evil General Zod pushes Superman to the brink, emotionally and psychically when Zod attempts to murder cornered civilians which drives him to do the thing he hates, killing people...by snapping Zods neck. This move was a really hard one to do for them I bet because that would be a real game changer but it still worked out I guess.
This film had a lot of buildings getting damaged and falling down, but this gives us a reality of how we would take it and how it would really look like if alien species did ever really take over or enter the Earths atmosphere, I mean... it was just 3 people from an alien planet named Krypton with a lot of strength and they cause almost more than $7 billion dollars worth of damage! All the destruction shows that we won't be able to stand up against those kinds of people. The last thing I didn't really like either was the pace of the characters development, it did take kind of long but at least we got more insight to Clark's life
The acting by the cast is great; they really gave a lot of emotion and put a lot of hard work into the film, the special effects were great but sometimes it just didn't excite me with all the producers and special effects guys trying too hard it looks terrible. Overall the film was great, I just don't understand why it got a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, and even the consensus says 'Man of Steel provides exhilarating action and spectacle to overcome its detours into generic blockbuster territory.' On IMDb it's rated 7.4 out of 10, the movie wasn't that bad!
Also, the music composed by Han Zimmer is really nice to listen to, however they replaced the iconic 'Superman march' used in Superman I, II, III and *cough*IV*cough* to completely distinguish the old films to the new reboot Man of Steel. I really liked this film, You should definitely watch this if you want to be entertained.