The good and the bad

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2013)

First of all, there were some good parts of the movie. Probably the best thing about this movie is that Russell Crowe did not sing in it. The special effect were excellent but that has come to be expected in today's big budget action films.
If you are new to the Superman character and story you will probably like this movie. If you grew up with DC comics and were a fan of the earlier films, you will hate it. I pretty much fall in the later camp.
As seems to be the trend now, this attempts to be a reboot of the superman character. As in Batman, we have a darker persona than the early works. I prefer the original over the new version.
The movie itself fails on so many levels, and those have been covered quite well in other reviews. My biggest complaints are the over expansion of the destruction of Krypton and the overly long final battle. Superman Returns had the Krypton bit about right. The planet is about to explode, Superman gets launched to Earth, the planet explodes. Enough said. As for the final battle, after so much of the same thing, it became boring. By the time it was over, Metropolis was destroyed and most of the population should have been killed. A hollow victory at best.
See it if you are a fan of action and CGI. Skip it if you are a fan of Superman.