SUPERMAN IS DEAD this film is KRYPTONITE

Rating: 3/10 (21 July 2013)

I can see why this movie appeals to a majority of people, it has all the explosions, fighting and fast flickering none stop action that seems to satisfy people today and it has it in abundance.#
I hate films which I have often reviewed as being "pretentious" and what I like to call "Emperors new clothes" which often get great reviews by other "pretentious" people who like to say how much they love some arty piece of drivel so that they can appear intellectual to the rest of us, as though we missed the greatness simply because we are not intelligent enough to have understood this cinematic masterpiece.
Unfortunately in a reversal of my usual standpoint, today I can't help thinking that I have become a member of the "highbrow brigade" as Man of Steel is what I can only think of as a "placebo of action for the in- intellectuals".
For me this film was tedious, I struggled to keep my eyes open and the character at the heart of the film wasn't Superman, it was ironman, thor or a generic super hero with a cape, who was indestructible and could fly...and nothing else. Assuming the writer "Goyer" and the Director "Snyder" are to blame for this debacle, what were they thinking?
I cannot claim to be a comic book reader, I'm no super hero geek, and I honestly don't know whether Superman is DC or Marvel. But I do know what superman is, and this ain't it.
Superman is not bolshy and tough, he is humble and meek, he doesn't allow thousands of people to die, because he is happy to push the bad guys through buildings making them collapse on the innocent public. There is a previous poster (lyre) that goes into the details of how many things are wrong with this film and I agree with every one of them.
So reap what you sew those that accolade this movie, I fear is that this is the end of Superman, this film has ruined it for the future as with this being a box office success, and the great unwashed looking at it favourably. Be aware that all future Superman films will be driven by sales and money hungry corporations will say...make more like that.. so well done Snyder and Goyer..you have killed superman.
one more thing to add to the nonsense reported by Lyer, how come everyone can teleport between Kansas and Whatever city "Metropolis?" it's supposed to be set in, seems superman and his foes push each other through countless collapsing buildings, up floors and be back and too between the desert, space, the city in a matter of seconds, to always have Lois Lane to rescue, or follow them up the stairs and be at the centre of the action...Is she super too?
You may well applaud this film now, but give it a couple of years and watch it on the same day as the classic Christopher Reeve version and you will then see how lacking in substance and Superman ethics this horrible horrible film was. Superman Returns Also was much better.