Worst movie of 2013. Appalling and sacrilegious movie, with the director's pornographic use of lens flare

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2013)

There's not much to say about this movie already said by other critics in other user comments preceding this comment, noting the sacrilegious abuse of the original material that form the Superman mythology, by the storytellers and the director who brought us 300 and Watchmen, which I loathed with in-depth criticism in the past reviews on this web site.
Besides the horrible retelling of Superman mytho which essentially deform the original story to comical effects, I vehemently, with repulsion, object to the director's fetish for the constant sensationalism with the shaky (even zooming, as the director's trademark) cinematography replete with the inanely pornographic employment of lens flare, like his fellow director J.J. Abrams of the Star Trek reboot, which I harshly criticized as well.
Zack Synder "made it" by dishonest means, which is the remake of the zombie movie directed by George Romero who was struggling financially to fund his next original zombie movie.
Here we continue to be delivered the abortions and abominations by Mr. Synder, who produce these films to degrade and mock the audiences as the proverbial cash cow, not unlike Michael Bay who produced and directed vulgar (in terms of degraded quality and language) and outright sensational and garbage films.
The overuse of lens flare, almost all computer generated, indicates utter lack of directorial creativity, and could only be abused by the hack who seek to gain only fortune instead of making the movie that actually respects the source materials, out of genuine love.
The director and producers Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer should be ashamed that they have committed possibly the greatest desecration in the malformed adaptation of the comic book since Albert Pyun's spectacularly hideous Captain America (not to mention the offensive recent adaptations of certain established comic books with the heroes and Norse mythology characters in revisionist storytelling to mock and insult the specific audiences) and Roger Corman's rushed and mind- blowingly cheap production of Fantastic Four.
I don't bash this film for comedy. I say this as having been the comic book collector and reader of Superman, including the original published comics from the Golden Age. This film is certainly not like Neal Adams' revision of Superman in character design and storytelling in the 70's.
Instead, Man of Steel is close to what it might have been had it starred Nicolas Cage, complete with the giant spider and the fight sequence with the aggressive polar bears. When the movie concluded with the ending credit rolling, I watched for Jon Peters in the credit. There he is, as the executive producer.
If the movie has the credit by Jon Peters, even if barely related, you'd know it's a stinkbomb that serve strictly as the ATM machine for the producers involved, that take the popular source material to strip of its cores in terms of common humanity to defile with sensationalism to render the movie unwatchable because corruption and absurdity pervades.
The "fight" sequence towards the ending is so repetitive it is palpably tedious. I yawned throughout the movie. I had to pause between boring and extraneous scenes a few times, for the length of time, while I prepared dinner, read books and even text a friend about how damn awful the movie is, when I have not finished watching, barely past the first hour.
I watched Man of Steel on Blu-ray rental at Redbox. Because I was too lazy to finish watching the movie in full, the rental period was extended to two days, and my money was ultimately thieved. This movie is, with all things considered, the thief of the audience's time and money.
This said, at least Russell Crowe excels as an actor as usual, even if he phones his role in. The sequence with Russell narrating amidst the moving background was the only highlight of the movie, if somewhat pretentious.
Man of Steel is a sacrelige, indeed, with irony noted which is in regards to the dishonest (source material polluting) producers and the comic book creators' intent.
This movie accompanies Bruckheimer/Bay's production Armageddon and J.J. Abrams' Star Trek how NOT to direct the "blockbuster" movie.
1/2 out of four