superman and super-blockbuster

Rating: 6/10 (27 June 2013)

Summer is coming at last... and with it a long series of blockbusters.
When it could have been an intelligent one with Nolan and Snyder at its head, it's basically not much more than a visual show. Yes it's a bomb, literally making neighborhood exploded (as "blockbuster" really means) but why can't we, spectators, want more than buildings going down and people looking up hoping for some savior? Acting is good even if, at some point, we have to smile imagining some of them with only a green/blue screen to act on... Special effects are obviously the strong statement of the movie (the only one?) but we know that green and blue colors are now Avatar's one so we irremediably go back to the sunny ones (especially when sun is vital to Kal-El!)but wanted to recreate the fauna of Krypton might have been a bit to much...
About the elliptic narrative writing, it works great but at the end we have a strong impression about a collage more than an actual movie. But the pact is fulfilled: we have action, drama, romance, past, present and futur (n°2 will bring once again Lex Luthor?) all tied up around one man more than one hero as the title suggest. But something is still missing: Snyder and Nolan have given us more in their past production than this demi-teintes long and fierce movie. Stop exploring the doubt, balancing between different possibilities and make a choice, assert: this self exploring period of American cinema has to come to an end by a big break in the spectator confidence as The Dark Knight or Watchmen used to be! Entertainement is not an end, it's a meaning to more: so yes go, enjoy, appreciate but criticize too!