How to kill Superman

Rating: 2/10 (28 November 2013)

1. Poor casting and acting. Lois is better suited to a daytime soaps role. Kal (Superman) acted like he was in an urban gang dance off. Zod acted like an American upset in a traffic tie-up. Jor drew upon Greek/Roman myth movie for a god like countenance. All misplaced and stereotypic. Fishburne must have been the ethnic diversity quota because he just didn't have credibility as a news dept. head. 2. Cheap, unimaginative graphics borrowed (stolen) from lots of older fantasy movies especially those with floating cities and other floaties. The space craft looked more appropriate for cartoon fantasy with zero basis in reality. 3. Old storyline of bad guys chase good guy; a couple battles ensue; good guy ekes it out in the end. Ho hum. 4. Dialogue that only cloistered Hollywood writers could unimaginatively come up with. "As a result our natural resources became unstable. We exhausted, our planets core." Huh! That makes no scientific, even middle school level, sense. There is no connection between the two. Or this tripe "Eventually our military leader, General Zod, attempted a coup." He must have been inspired by events in Central/South America or Africa or Far East. Finally "I have journeyed across an ocean of stars to reach you." That is a terribly misplaced metaphor for our Universe.