Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (11 April 2015)

It starts out like Avatar and ends with stupid, and in the middle there's a glimmer of hope.
All I got from this movie is that Superman is a jerk.
His parents save him by the most insanely Avatarish world to die in a dying world while he goes to Earth to be a jerk. You would think his parents raised him properly, but no they didn't. In fact his Earth Dad watches him get beat up by kids and doesn't shout at them to stop he just waits until they torture him. Then his Dad is like, well, you know. Just don't be a jerk when you have every right to be, okay?
Then some good movie goes on for awhile until this tornado rolls in and then it gets stupid. Like, really stupid. I would repeat the word "really" a lot but I just want you to know there is emphasis on that. The dog is in the car, so instead of Superman going around a corner and saving the dog at super speed his dumb Dad is like, no don't do anything. I'm going into the tornado to kill me and the dog, alright? You guys just sit here and watch. Instead of holding his dad back at least... and you know, Martha is like, go for it go kill you and the dog! She doesn't stop him either, they're like no it's okay, this is what we do. We let our senile family kill themselves in tornados while we watch. I mean, come on, who wrote this nonsense? Just let them have a sad moment where they're like aw crap the dog died in the tornado, and his dad stresses out and has a heart attack over the excitement while they hold him back and he dies anyway so it's a really horrible time??
Who writes this crap? People rated this movie over 7, I just don't get it! I didn't know we rated movies by special FX these days.
Anyway, then some fairly decent movie goes on until they all start fighting in the city. Superman is a jerk the whole time. He stops the world destroyer like many miles away from the city where all the people are instead of stopping the one in the city that's killing everyone. What a jerk, just terrible decision making on a superheros part. Then he comes back to the city instead of just staying there the whole time, to put more lives in danger. Him and Zod toss each other around for like however long I was looking at my watch and sighing. Then they not only dumb the movie down and cause me to stand up out of my seat, not only did they dumb the movie down further into pits of stupidity like religion kills innocent people, they force superman to kill. Goes beyond the code of superman we've come to know, though he was a violent and destructive fellow, he's no murderer. Maybe an accident at worst, or doesn't do much to help an SOB when he kills himself, but this??
Let me set the scene here for you... Zod is on his knees, and Superman is holding his head like he can't stop it from turning a couple inches. I'm rolling my eyes, cause there's these idiots just standing there as if they can't duck and run or move. But I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say they are paralyzed by weird heat vision coming at them. Deer in headlights phenomenon or something right? I'm not really much of a stickler for realism in movies, all I ask in staying consistent within the world created in the movie. You know? Just keep me immersed and believing it no matter how far fetched it may be. Don't do anything completely out of the ordinary of the story itself, right? No, I should have known they couldn't do this right opening up with Avatar and killing a Dad over a dog in a tornado that he could have saved. He can't stop a heart attack, that's fair but he can save a dog and a dad from a tornado. That's Superman. They already proved he could in the story. He also just demolished a world destroying mechanical machine probably weighs ridiculous amounts more than Zod's head. He withstood so much damage and just before this they were knocking each other all over the city.
But suddenly he can't stop heat vision? He can't put his hands over his eyes like "guess what Zod? It's over, nice try though funny guy!" He can't stop his head by forcing it to turn? So to stop him... he turns his head really hard! I'd repeat the word "really..." you get the idea. He turns his head so hard he kills Zod, ruins supermans code, and completely destroying all hopes that movies are any good these days. They have no idea what they are doing. Who does this nonsense? Who lets these ideas go on? I mean, we all have our off days but this movie took a lot more than days to write. Then they went and made it even though it was written stupidly, like a disaster! That's even more insulting. I can't believe we can't get a refund, I never wanted a refund more in my life. Holy hell!
This is just the typical movie writing coming out of these blockbusters. No need to make sense or be consistent. Just toss things together and make it look good will you? People will rate it high, spend their money, it's no loss, it's profit!
It truly is too, I will never visit the theater again, either it comes to netflix streaming or no deal. This has gone on long enough.