Ah well, another Superman gone dud

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2013)

I am not sure why people are lapping up blindly rave reviews for this but one thing is for sure, Zack Snyder has lost it. Especially, with the name like Christopher Nolan associated with the movie, it should have been something worth remembering as you move out of theater. But all it turned out was something of a big disappointment.
Superman franchise is doomed, from the Brendon Routh to Henry Cavil, each movie has almost left the users gasping for a befitting tribute but hardly comes close to doing justice for the ultimate superhero. I am wondering why Christopher Nolan did not take forth the Superman franchise while he ventured on making Batman to be remembered forever. How many superhero movies before Batman do you remember to be of the stature to be remembered forever. Spiderman came quiet close but not the kind.
However, comparing Batman and Superman is totally irrational given they are on different plane altogether. But, at least little sanity is required to digest all that superman has in the store.
Man of Steel starts slowly with lot more in detail about Krypton and interplanetary details. Russell Crowe plays stone faced role. Movie then starts complicating the matter with Superman's past and present combined intermittently. Later, second half Zod starts coming in with funny lines and movies ends with 'every beginning has an end' a la matrix kind of fight sequences. It turns out to be such a messy and complicated affair, even star trek darkness or for that matter, the superhero of trivia, Iron Man looks like 100 times better than this movie. Some fight sequences are good given the cgi effects are decent but nothing of the scale of what other movies have achieved for e.g. Avatar or Tron. The sequences looked kind of artificial and even 300 was a better effects movie than this one.
Only good parts about the movie were the last fight sequences which was highly predictable and high octane but did justice to the sequences. Lois lane looked old and didn't really set the tone going with Batman. Overall, just a decent start but anyone would have done a better job without complicating the situation so much and making a singular track story without too much venturing into interwoven sequences and pushing cgi deeper than the actual scenes.