What happened?

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2014)

I've given this movie 6 out of 10, but the more I think about it, the more I want to reduce the score. Off the bat, I love Zach's Directing. He nailed 300 and Watchmen. He's the most technically proficient director working in Hollywood today hands down. I also love when he delves into the characters like he did in Watchmen. That's why for the first 1 hour and 20 minutes I was in love with this version of Superman. I loved the character work he did in grounding the film and making it about an Alien, a god and the implications that means for the world. It reminded me of the incredible comic book called, "Superman: Secret Identity". If you haven't read it, do yourself a favour and pick it up. Kurt Busiek is a fabulous writer. It wasn't even the action I had a problem with. That was fine although a little distant and not overly connected to the characters like it was in the first half of the film. What disappointed me most was the Techno Babble. This isn't Star Trek, this is superman. All the Sci-Fi techno talk was boring and took me totally out of the movie. They needed to simplify the story and make it more about Superman's relationship to Earth and not stopping some pointless machine invented for the movie. It was a cold and distant finale to the film that left me extremely underwhelmed after such a great start. Oh and there was no chemistry between superman and Lois. Superman was falling in love for the first time and we didn't see anything or feel how this was affecting him. He'd kept himself at distance from the people of earth for so long, it was only his parents and now Lois who he really let in. We needed to explore this a bit more and that would have made the action more interesting. I feel the writer is to blame for this, not the director. Perhaps a more grounded script and we'd be talking about Man of Steel as one of the great comic book movies.