Man of Steel: This is a awful movie

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2013)

I went to this movie thinking that it was going to be really good. I had a friend who saw it and they really liked it; and I had seen the trailer which lead me to believe it wouldn't be too far off from the original story.
Being collector of comics for over thirty years I know they have done "alternate universes" and "what if" scenarios for all kinds of super heroes. I expected that the director would take some artistic license with the story, do a small reboot for non-superman viewers, then go right in to the original story.
Whelp.... no.
This movie is so far removed from the original storyline that I nearly got up and left the theater. There was a guy to my right about ready to jump out of his seat (I could tell he was upset) and then the old couple to my left was laughing at several of the action scenes (I heard they say, "that's stupid").
I really wanted my money back.
The "out of focus" zoom in/zoom out scenes where Superman was learning how to fly was horrible. I saw that same technique in WorldWarZ (barf) and thought it ruined the movie. It is a cheap way of getting people to think that the person is moving so fast that you can't keep up with them. It's and amateur stunt, they should know better.
The amount of action during the fight in Metropolis with General Zod was ridiculous; it was too much. On top of which, the CG was not believable and they used that out of focus, zoom in/zoom out again. The action sequences with Christopher Reeves and Terence Stamp were ten times better and lower budget from the 1978 Superman.
There were a lot of technical "ooops" which I wont dwell on but there were too many for this movie. I expect that when people are doing the script they should know better and it shows they had no attention to detail for the viewers who want to be drawn-in to the movie as much as possible.
At the end of the movie about 10 people clapped, but I heard several boos behind me. I stood up, turned around and said, "This movie is an insult to the original story". One person directly behind me said, "stop nitpicking" to which three people behind them said, "No! They ruined the original story".
In closing...
If you never owed a Superman comic, video or book and never really cared, then this might be the movie for you.
If you are really in to CG and don't mind over-dosing on directors who rely too much on CG because the story sucks, then this might be the movie for you.
If you are a die-hard fan of Superman and love to see the original Superman, then this isn't the movie for you.
Casting - 1 (Henry Cavill makes a good superman) Acting - 1 (Script sucked, but acting was believable) Script - 0 Directing - 0 Originality - 0 Special effects - 0 Continuity - 0 Attention to detail - 0 Believability - 0
2 out of 9