Superman for people who did not know the whole story and read all the comics and so on.

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2014)

This movie definitely allowed for me, a fan of Superman who did not know the comics at all, learn more about the hero in the goofy suit. I highly recommend this series of movies over previous ones as I think this really tells more than past movies in a way that people not reading the comics and so on will grasp easily. Also it was wonderfully done without the movie being boring in any way. The graphical presentation was pretty good but I saw the movie in 3D in my home and really can only comment on how watching it that way felt. Now while there always could be more stuff coming at you on the screen, and my son complains about this all the time with 3D movies, I think this movie was better for having 3D. The action sequences were over the top and the destruction in this movie was massive. It made me oh and ah for sure. I think the acting was solid although a few times I thought lines would be delivered a little more forcefully in certain scenes. Still this didn't take much away from the movie being a quality flick to watch. I do think though that Superman's birth father should have looked much more fake and unreal and more like a projected image when Superman saw him on that ship after his birth father was long dead. I just felt his birth dad after death looking so real just felt wrong. What also felt wrong was not seeing dead bodies with all the destruction that was going on. It is ridiculous to show nothing.
8 out of 10 is the best I can give this film.
On a different day I might rate it a bit lower but with no decimal point ratings allowed on the site well it makes it harder for me to rate some films. I think this is better than just a plain 7 for sure but maybe an 8 is too much. Eh anyway.
Bottom line is this movie entertained while educating people who did not know all of Superman's story.