Pretty good movie with some problems

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2013)

I love the super hero movies but no one has been able to get it right since Christopher Reeves. That being said, they still haven't hit gold yet, even with this movie.
Mind you, the FX are great and Henry Cavill is just right as Superman. The graphics were simply beautiful. By far the best part of the movie is Russell Crowe as Jor-el. Micheal Shannon did well as General Zod and brought more dimension to him than just "I want to kill everything for the sake of killing" that Superman 2 brought with Christopher Reeve. Lawrence Fishburn was very cool as Perry White.
I absolutely love the fact that we get to know more about Krypton and its people.
That being said, there were some glaring problems.
The story was a bit disjointed in the beginning (after Krypton) with the creators jumping between different time periods in Cal-el's life.
There was wayyyy too shaky cam and it was driving me nuts by the end of the movie. With so much, it was hard to focus on a lot of the scenes and it ended up being a jumbled mess. I'm going to have to watch it multiple times to see what I missed because there's so much happening.
I really like Amy Adams. Usually. In this movie, she did not do well as Lois Lane, and there were no sparks between her and Henry Cavill at all.
And they seemed to have stunted the story. It was more "here look at all this stuff everyone else is doing and hey, Superman is involved in it too". He was getting beat wayyyy too much. He's supposed to be the man of steel, not just "better than human".
I expected more out of a Chris Nolan movie since he's done so well in the past. Usually when I leave his movies, I leave feeling like I've just been on a heck of a thrill ride, but not this time.
It was good. It could have been much much better.