Too Much Blowing Stuff Up

Rating: 6/10 (14 June 2013)

I ran into a friend immediately after seeing Man of Steel, and he asked me what I thot. You know Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, where the premise is that the first thing you blurt out is likely to be accurate? Well, I discovered, somewhat to my own surprise, that the 1st 5 words out of my mouth were "Too much blowing stuff up."
As a long-time comic-book fan, I really wanted to like this movie, but I can't give it any better than a 6. The things that drag it upward are all the things I liked about Spider-Man, the Dark Knight trilogy, and The Avengers. The main thing dragging it down was that it spent way too much of its 2:23 run time trying to be louder, more frenetic, and more destructive than the Transformers flicks. Some of the plot elements and dialog were a step or 2 up from Green Lantern, but that still doesn't raise them very high.
The 3-D is a post-production conversion job and definitely not worth paying extra for. The main reason to see it in Imax is to get the benefit of the surround sound assaulting your eardrums for most of the pic.
There's about 75 minutes of halfway decent movie in here. Too bad about all the stuffing.