Man Of Steel Shines.

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2013)

I remember watching "The Dark Knight Rises" last year with my brothers in our local cinema. Then came the teaser trailer of Man of Steel with epic background music (Howard Shore - The Bridge of Khazad Dumb) pouring in my ears, Kevin Costners voice: "You're not just anyone," he says. "One day, you're going to have to make a choice; you have to decide what kind of man you wanna grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's going to change the world." From that point onwards I vowed to myself i would watch the film when it released.
After watching trailers and numerous TV spots, preparing myself to watch movie. The day finally came! I went to my local cinema got pair of tickets for myself and my brother, ran up the stairs skipped catching the elevator. Sat down on our seats, soon as Hans Zimmer music starts pouring in my ears and watching the "Syncopy" logo flash my eyes were hooked on the screen.
In any case, the opening sets up the mutinous General Zod (played by a delightfully scenery-chewing Michael Shannon) as the clear "bad guy." When Zod kills Jor-El in a rage (after Jor-El sends the codex with the key to all Kryptonian DNA off in Kal-El's famous escape pod), you can almost see the title card instructing the audience to hiss. It's hard to feel very mad about this murder, though, given that the entirety of Krypton, Jor-El included, blows up from seismic stress almost immediately afterwards. Of course, Zod and his allies were safe from this in his Phantom Zone prison (which is in space, despite the fact that the Kryptonians have long since ceased any space exploration that might save them from their doomed planet), thus making him able to seek revenge from beyond the death of his home planet.
Just grit your teeth through this overly long introduction, because things get much better as soon as the scene makes a quick, unexplained jump to Henry Cavill working on a fishing boat. Over the next half hour or so of the movie, director Zack Snyder provides an excellent summary of the life of one super-powered Clark Kent with a minimum of plodding exposition. Through quick jumps between scenes of an adult Clark trying to blend in to the scenery of the Pacific Northwest and scenes of him discovering his powers while growing up (shown as a terrifyingly fraught experience), the character's backstory slowly unfolds in a natural and compelling way.
The film is awesome go watch it and F*** rottentomatoes and metacritics.