Brilliant but underwhelming...

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2014)

I can see that a lot of effort was put into the making of the film and the cast was great but I couldn't help feeling bored at times and unenlightened. So many scenes looked like they were blatantly copied from other films, even some dialogue seemed copies as well especially when it came to the action scenes and sequences (which is something that I've come to expect and notice from almost every Hollywood blockbuster type flick nowadays) the only impressive action scenes were the stunts done by the characters played by Russell Crowe and Antje Traue and it should be noted that these two were hardly even in the nearly three-hour-long film. In a film like this, the spectacular scenes should be shown off of the main characters not the supporting or hardly present ones. The conflict between Jor-el (Crowe) and Zod (Michael Shannon) formed the basis of the film, which was good and later on Kal (Henry Cavill) realising and carrying on his father's legacy was solid and portrayed well. The relationship between Lois and Kal shamefully was not. So much of it was clichéd and very predictable but I'm still giving the film an 8/10 because I truly appreciate the effort they put into breathing new life to the superman saga but I'm not going to lie, I expected more.