An alien invasion movie... not a superman movie

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2013)

Excellent! The background on Krypton was excellent with a dying civilization, embroiled in a violent coup. Cool technology. Was thinking I'd see it again just to see all the cool alien tech. was creative and different, like the cool 'warp' drive machine with all the arms. Bigger themes, Zod seemed like a Nazi, wanting to preserve 'superior' Kryptonian bloodlines... Great that Clark was an itinerant worker, didn't just jump straight to reporter at the "Planet." Clark had to decide to be good or bad, to protect man or preserve his near-extinct race... Zod character was awesome, well done. All the characters were well- played without being over the top. Zod was singularly focused on what he was born and bred to do-save Krypton-even though he was 'going off the rails' a little. Action was awesome-almost too much ala transformers. the cgi was incredible- real looking physics= cgi interacted with real characters, alien ships flying through clouds create vortexes-Abrams take not for future Star Wars movies!
No cheesy red underwear or trite superman cutesieness-no phone booth quick changes.