And... Action, Action, Action!!

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2013)

Going into this movie I thought that it was going to be absolutely amazing due to Christopher Nolan's supervision of the film, however, I was slightly let down.
The movie starts off with an awesome action scene on Krypton that keeps ones blood flowing, but then soon dies down once the story reaches earth. I thought that for the first hour or so the movie fell a bit short for me. Most of the scenes were very bland and did not have much substance to them. The addition of the flashbacks did not help much either. I found that they disrupted the flow of the movie and could have been done without. It was nice to see the back story of Clark Kent, but a linear story line of his childhood progressing into adulthood would have been welcome.
Once General Zod broadcasts on all screens around the world, the pacing of the movie starts to pick up. Finally there is a reason and a point to this movie. From this point on, General Zod and Superman go at each other and destroy half of Metropolis while doing so.
I absolutely LOVED the action in this movie. It was some of the best action sequences I have seen in a long time. They sort of remind me of the movie 'Jumper' in that the characters can pretty much just teleport from place to place and destroy anything in their path. Also, the score in this movie complemented the action very nicely and made up for the lack of emotional investment I had with the characters. Hans Zimmer's score actually made me care about Superman during the fight scenes.
One last gripe I have about the movie is that there was absolutely NO chemistry between Lois Lane and Superman. The story never explained why she liked him and just threw them together assuming we (the audience) would just accept their attraction to each other.
Overall, the general story of the movie was fairly weak and the characters did not give me reasons to care about them, however, I give the movie 8/10 due to the MIND BLOWING action sequence at the end and Hans Zimmer's EPIC score.