Terrible movie... the makers will be surprised at a 6+ rating on IMDb.

Rating: 2/10 (24 June 2013)

Lots of spoilers in this review, as I am going to list some of the things which I hated in the movie...
1. Kryptonians could send prisoners into space and they could send a ship to earth 20000 years ago. But they could not save anyone with a few weeks left before the destruction of the planet - except one baby. They didn't even try!!! The day humans could send a large ship across the stars to other inhabitable planets, that is the day humanity would become immortal.
2. All the other Kryptonians on all other planets just died because Krypton had been destroyed? Zod comes across these in his search for Kal-El. All because of a bad system design with a single point of failure!! The movie makers should at least have made an effort to make some kind of sense of all this bull. Nope... they just dished it out by the truckload.
3. The father (Costner) just commits suicide while making a gallant gesture asking Clark to not save him, while knowing well that Clark could easily do it. All in the name of saving people the knowledge of alien's existence. He was so sure that people would go crazy that he doesn't care about his own life. It looked more like he was tired of living on this planet after reading the movie's script. To add insult to the departed father, Clark goes and shows his life saving abilities to people whenever he is required to ( oil rig, etc ).
4. Whenever Superman comes across an insurmountable hurdle, he does not overcome it by ingenuity, teamwork or taking advantage of enemy's weakness. He just screams and makes it happen. He is Screamman. The world machine makes him powerless, but as soon as he screams hard enough, he gets all his power back to fly and destroy it. Same bull with killing Zod... they just didn't think through any of this.
5. I was highly irritated by Superman and Zod just destroying property and life around them indiscriminately. Superman didn't even try to fake an effort of saving anyone around them, or take the fight elsewhere. He actually threw enemies into buildings, trains and what ever he could aim for.
I request people to consider for a moment before giving this movie a high rating. A 10 rating should really mean something rather than, I liked the action, so 10. The action itself probably counts for just 3-4 stars, with the rest counting for story, acting and some other factors. This movie failed even for the good action... because it was so mindless, overdone, irritating and killed humans indiscriminately without being true to Superman's value of saving lives. Any normal man would try to take the fight elsewhere, forget about Superman.
2 stars for Russel Crowe. He was the only one worth watching in this disaster of a movie.