Marmite Movie

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2015)

Can't decide if I kind of enjoyed this or really disliked it.
I am a massive Christopher Reeve Superman fan. Growing up watching those films, Superman was a man that was funny(Clark Kent always made me laugh) and he defeated the bad guys with his powers but more importantly he out smarted them and oh the big point he didn't kill anyone. At the very least he took the fight away from innocent bystanders (get back to that later).
The whole opening to this film is massive and way too long, it's all with superman's parents and the dying planet of Krypton which becomes like Avatar with Russell Crowe jumping on and off flying insects(yes its that mental)..After 10 minutes I was sitting thinking come on get to Superman already. Also I should mention that the opening sequence completely ruins the credibility of General Zod as the bad guy. Hes the guy that's in charge of the Planets Army and Superman's dad(Russell Crowe) is a scientist but in a 1V1 hand to hand fight Russell Crowe kicks his ass!! General Zod hang your head in shame..tut tut..that instantly makes me go 'meh here's the bad guy woo pee do' every time he appeared on screen. Regarding the bad guys, credit is due to Faora- Ul played by Antje Traue, she was interesting and well enjoyable to watch in all her scenes.
This Film took a different look at Superman, He's floating between jobs and has no real purpose in life. The plot has him stumble onto his parents spacecraft which is badly written and yes there's spacecraft in this film..a lot of spacecraft(madness really). There's plot holes galore mostly with Lois Lane involved..think it was the only way they could keep her in the film by throwing sense out the window. There's also a shocking scene where Superman watches Jonathan Kent die when he could have saved him..that's beyond mental. The very essence of Superman is that no one die's,NO-ONE..not even the bad guy..he wouldn't allow it. There's a few times things like that happen where your sitting thinking ''what's the body count up to now?'' The fight scene with Superman against 2 super bad guys in the town with planes shooting at them with guns and bombs then crashing into the street...people hiding in wooden shops would surely get hurt. Then the final battle between Zod and Superman has half a city blown up and buildings dropping on people and not once does Superman try to take the fight away or save people mid battle. And the craziest scene I've ever witnessed has Superman snap a guys neck!!! That's so not cool..HE JUST WOULDN'T DO THAT EVER.
So yeah I liked the different way this was told about him lost on Earth with no purpose as of yet but there was a lot of bad things too (killing,spaceships,flying bugs,killing,no humour,Way too much CGI(even Michael Bay would be jealous) and oh yeah killing).
I would have probably rated this lower if I wasn't such a fan of Superman..clouded my judgement slightly.
All in all this was poor though :(
If you want a Avatar/Transformers/Matrix mix then yeah you may like this.