Very nice flick

Rating: 8/10 (23 July 2013)

s the man of steel, Cavill (best known from Showtime's The Tudors) displays a magnetic presence and topographic physique in the star-making role that had narrowly eluded him in the past. (He was the runner-up to play Bond in Casino Royale but was deemed too young; Twilight author Stephenie Meyer called him "my perfect Edward," but by the time the novel was optioned he was deemed too old.) As Lois Lane, Adams shows so much pluck that it's a wonder she isn't conscripted for duty on a poultry farm. And the rest of the cast (which also features Ayelet Zurer and Diane Lane as Clark's biological and adoptive mothers, respectively, and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White) fulfill their obligations with aplomb. I do wish, though, that Shannon (as Zod) had been asked to dial back his patented brand of wide-eyed crazy at least intermittently.