Best explanation of General Zod

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2013)

This particular release goes into great detail of General Zod's motives which unlike the 1980 release of Superman II were never completely clear, the evil super trio simply arrived on earth destined to destroy Superman because of Jor'El's sentence of eternity trapped in space and because they wanted to be gods among mankind of earth.
Here, while we may not agree we can grasp Zod's reasoning in that he is trying to save the race of his people and in fact Superman struggles to destroy the last vestiges of his home planet as he is still very much an alien to this world.
Cast-wise Henry Cavill (plays Sup) is ripped like Superman should have always been (no disrespect Reeves), Amy Adams is okay with no real credit for this role (I hope they find someone else); lastly we have Michael Shannon..... Oh holy mother!!??! He played the perfect villain in a movie where he doesn't view any of what he does as villainous. He simply asks Cal'El to use the death of all humankind as the foundation for a new Krypton on Earth... Anyway Shannon is brilliant, overall the movie left me with few short pauses.