Does not add anything, does not out do it's predecessors , over the top action

Rating: 5/10 (15 June 2013)

The story line was basically the same. It felt like a mixture of Superman 2, 1, and maybe Superman 4. There was an overwhelming amount of action, which doesn't add anything to a movie for me, or entertain me. The action was over the top, and really hard to follow. It's basically like pew pew pew boom! WHEEEE RAGHHH pew pew pew type action. I like movies where the action is sort of manageable on screen. I don't like action movies where the action is over the top and the characters are invincible. I know it's a Super hero movie and I have seen Superman films in the past. As a matter of fact I've seen them all.. I felt that movies like The Avengers or Captain America,Iron Man 1, 2 -3 the action was at least sort of grounded. The overdose of action didn't really add anything for me at all, I felt like it was a video game or a cartoon. Granted a cartoon sort of fits this franchise, the over action didn't add anything to me for this film version. It was just a mess, there was one scene that I felt was really kind of brain less. They're in a street between buildings and they are bringing down large craft in the streets and blowing things up and miraculously the only damage that occurs is inside the narrow street between the buildings. I just felt like they had a large explosion or CGI effects where ever they could possibly cram them into the story and went over board where ever they go. It's like everyone that goes to a movie now a days is assumed to have ADD or I feel like I'm Crank and they are trying to keep my heart racing and keep me hopped up on the action, suspense. Only there was no suspense for me just a pew pew pew over load of action without any real drama in it for me. I couldn't even get into the action over load. The maximum amount of damage and explosions and I don't actually remember any real suspense expect for one tiny part at the end of the movie where superman saved some one from being burnt alive by laser heat vision eyes. When his father dies, is horrifically predictable and also sort of poorly written. He doesn't die because he's a hero really, he dies because he goes back to save a dog,a dog... then they add in the bit that he died to keep Superman's identity secret, well sort of...
There's nothing added in this movie, nothing new. Small Ville already showed us a bullied Clark that had to hold back his anger etc etc. The villains are though very well cast were basically the same as the super man 2 villains. The ice fortress or whatever you want to call it was basically the same... To be this is as original a movie to Superman as the new Star Trek is to Star Trek. It's basically some kind of reboot that doesn't really look past the original films in my opinion.
Though I admit the female evil super woman was rather attractive by my tastes. She was attractive in Superman 2 too if I remember...basically the same character and basically the same back ground for those 3 villains in this movie and that one... They even basically look the same
Ah, it is in fact the same characters with a little refresher of the memory...
I was looking for a more realistic adaptation of the character on film and this definitely wasn't it. It had a strong cast of actors, actresses. The movie had barely enough story, but there really wasn't that much character development and the characters were the same characters that had been played for the past 70 something years. The characters were basically written just to fit the part... Lois was basically just Lois. Clark was basically just Clark...The villains might as well been Lex Luther again.
It's the same old story... but I felt this movie was just way too over the top. It had a great cast of supporting actors who were probably used better than the main supporting cast. The supporting characters were more interesting in my opinion than the characters written just to fit into a "Superman script".
I understand that the movie is supposed to be on a super sized scale and supposed to be over the top. The action however seems to be the main focus of the film and just keeps getting piled on thicker and thicker. I got burnt out. It was kind of like POTCS 3 to me where there was action and more action and more action and I just got burnt out eventually.
I would say that this was just an action film really. It goes into the character a little bit but over all it's fast, loud and for a younger audience that likes pew pew boom pew pew action type stuff.
It just didn't have a lot of substance for me to call this a masterpiece. I know we shouldn't have been expecting Citizen Kane... but over all it's just a Superman movie. I don't feel that it at all has out done it's predecessors. I don't feel like it's added anything either and I personally don't go in for over the top action films. It's about on level with the new Star Trek film for me...