Good Re-Boot

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2013)

Saw this film yesterday.. and kinda enjoyed it, although I am no great fan of DC characters (I am an ardent fan of Lee Falk's Phantom), and the last 15 minutes of the film were a drag. The re-boot is complete, with dazzling special effects, especially for 3-D. I think I saw some Lovecraftian elements, what with the space-ships and other stuff resembling menacing lobsters, sea anemones, octopi and such stuff. But it could be my imagination on over-drive.
Henry Cavill makes a good Superman, although he looks better with the beard, than without it. Half the film is based on not so-very accurate flash-backs, so the younger generation who have not been bought up on the staple diet of DC comics will never really know what the actual Superman was all about. Even the name and the symbol, S, has been down-played. Superman has dropped his red knickers in this film.. the camera avoids his lower parts, and concentrates more on his face and biceps. Lois Lane makes an early appearance.. in fact, she is in most of the frames. Poor Superman has to share most of his scenes either with his parents or General Zod. I wonder if subsequent productions will bring in some of the older, more established villains like Brainiac, Lex Luthor etc., or will it Zod, Zod and Zod all the way.
Not a bad deal, on the whole. Certainly watchable, but not a collector's item for sure.