Man of Steel" a must-see movie experience

Rating: 8/10 (15 September 2016)

With the huge success of criticism and public of other major publishing house films, Marvel, and very successful recent adaptations of comic book characters for the film characters from the DC Comics catalog, especially "V for Vendetta (2005) "and the trilogy" the Dark Knight "in the acclaimed command Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. saw that it was time to adapt the other great exponent of the publisher, Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Christopher Nolan is one of the producers of this new feature and some of its features are easily identifiable, especially as a plot planted more in reality. On the other hand, the film is not so gloomy nor pessimistic about the trilogy of the Dark Knight, after all Superman is the symbol of hope. Who runs is Zack Snyder, already experienced driving adaptations of comic characters in the acclaimed "Watchmen (2009)" and "300 (2006)" and he is happy to bring its main features to shoot the action scenes and so struggles more shocking and creative camera positioning.
The screenplay by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer has the challenge to tell a new story of origin of another iconic character and have been very successful, as they did in "Batman Begins (2005)." The writers highlight Superman like that sent to Earth to guide us, teach and lead us so that we do not make the same mistake of other civilizations, such as Krypton, which ended with the planet's natural resources, leading to to its destruction. It explored all the time the philosophical implications, social and religious discovery that we are not alone in the universe. The narrative focuses on his first twenty minutes long to present to the public the home planet of the hero. We know some of the beings who live in this world, their customs, hierarchy of power, its advanced technological level and basically the reasons that led the planet to succumb to the exploitation of its natural resources (an ecological message directed to our own planet).
The narrative structure, from there, more or less follows the formula for original stories, mixing episodes of the past and the hero present, in order to connect to and identify with the nature of this alien created under our customs always. It shows Clark from small discovering some of his powers, such as acute hearing, vision that passes through walls, or longer adolescent, knowing more of its origin and knowing better control their powers still under- developed. Clark always felt out of place, wandering the world unable to establish any relationship with others beyond their earthly parents, and this personal drama the most important part of character development. The conflict between being a kind of god for humans as Jor-El wanted, and not be accepted by them as Jonathan Kent feared moves the plot.
Henry Cavill, egress of the TV series "The Tudors," is who takes the cover of the most beloved alien Earth. The actor has all the features for this character. It is an actor who has strong dramatic charge that transpires all the essential conflicts of character in his eyes. He also has the right physique, a face that reveals the kindness and charisma.The supporting cast is to place the hero of two worlds. On the one hand, parents Earthlings Kevin Costner (Jonathan) and Diane Lane (Martha). On the other, the Kryptonian Russell Crowe (Jor-El) and Ayelet Zurer (Lara), decisive in the construction of the moral hero, since he is the only Kryptonian who has the free will to make decisions.
The always competent Amy Adams plays the journalist Lois Lane. The actress gives the touch of beauty, intelligence and determination of the character. The actress exudes charisma and chemistry with Cavill it was important for the film to work, convinced. However, the insistence by the script to put the character in every major action sequence is a flawed script points (Someone explain the invitation to board the ship Zod).
The menacing General Zod Michael Shannon is a fanatic genetically designed to be a warrior and takes the mission to rebuild their civilization even at the expense of another in the extreme. The he was never given any option to choose the society of his planet and its visceral and compelling interpretation of Shannon and the coldness of Antje Traue as Faora works very well on the big screen.
Hans Zimmer master took a chore to have to reinterpret the iconic and historic trail consists of another master, John Williams in the 1970s. Zimmer composes more general themes common to action cinema. But the music work and are spectacular, especially in the last hour of the film in the purest and frantic action. The production design of Alex McDowell , sets its own visual identity. Krypton is beautiful and refers in fact to a more evolved society in every way, modern technology and at the same time bringing a pompous and impressive architecture, referring to ancient and powerful kingdoms. Changes in classic costumes of Superman (especially the lack of underwear over his pants because it was shown to be a Kryptonian clothes) and Zod and his fighters are highly appropriate and necessary.
Zack Snyder is very effective to present the alien hero for a new generation of fans. Even sinning by too much action in the last minute projection (a final action of the mixture of the first "Avengers" franchise with the film "Transformers" Michael Bay), the fun is phenomenal. Overall, a good creative team, a good cast, visual effects first category and a script that, despite being very educational in many times (as the explanation of the "S" as hope, for example) knew to tell origin story with many good moments of action make "The Man of Steel" a must-see movie experience.