Like watching somebody play a video game

Rating: 2/10 (19 November 2013)

I would have been disappointed by this film, but having been fairly sure it was going to be bad, I wasn't. I simply didn't expect it to be this awful.
Other than Henry Cavill, who is a great Superman, the cast is abysmal. Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, and especially Michael Shannon are all as bland as a rice cake soaked in water. Laurence Fishburne and Diane Keaton can act well enough, but their characters have very little to do or say that is interesting. Russell Crowe's Jor-El is like a sleepy Ben Kenobi, saying all the predictable "wise" things you would expect.
The action and the camera-work of this film is like watching a toddler play a video game, just ravaging the joystick in his hands hoping for something to happen.
The individual positive qualities of the creative team cease to exist in this film, they must have cancelled each other out.