Man of Steel? Man was that disappointing.....

Rating: 6/10 (14 June 2013)

I walked into Man of Steel chomping at the bit for the film to begin. The moment it started, it just started wrong and never got much better. Let me praise its few positives first. Wonderful fight scenes and special effects. That's it. The pacing was all wrong of the film. It jumped around too much from different time periods in Clark Kent's life, and before it could answer questions about what I had just seen, it moved on to something else and didn't explain that scene at all. Some of the scenes were just confusing and unexplained. the character performances were all boring with not one bit of character development. Superman was almost a silent film star as the ghost of Russell Crowe you wish would just evaporate already had more lines than Superman it seemed. It was so dark and dry, not in the delicious way that made The Dark Knight an excellent film. it seemed to want to ride on Nolan's trilogy too much. To compare this film to any of Christopher Nolan Batman movies is blasphemy. I would compare it more to a Michael Bay Transformers film that just is a reason to show off what special effects can do without telling any kind of a real story. If this is a start to Justice League, God save that poor DC Universe.