Really wanted to like it but ...

Rating: 6/10 (14 June 2013)

It was boring. That was the big problem with it. And I'm not talking about the first 45 minutes of character development. Actually that was the best part of the film, had been been a little well defined emotionally. It was the eye popping special effects extravaganza later that did not work for me at all. So much so that I was fidgeting uncontrollably in the last 30 mins or so, waiting for it to get over.
The actors did a fine job, Henry Cavill was very likable as Clark Kent/ Superman and fit the role rather well. Hoping for as detailed a character from him as Robert Downey Jr's Ironman or Christian Bale's Batman would probably be expecting too much. Rest of the actors or characters were not bad either. It was just that the film lacked any sort of emotional or intellectual depth or entertainment factor, either of which we have now come to expect of superhero flicks after Dark Knight and Ironman/Avengers respectively.
Zack Snyder doesn't get it as a film maker. Amazing special effects can bowl over the movie-goers once, maybe twice, but you cannnot a great film make every time based just on eye candy. A film is about characters and their stories, both of which were not interesting enough to draw me in.
Disappointed after having waited a LONG time for Man of Steel to come out.