So much nonsense in the previous reviews

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2013)

The lack of romance is completely expected: if there's a worldwide alien invasion going on, and you are the only one who can do something about it, you shouldn't use your time on romance.
Am I the only one who thinks Henry Cavill's superman killing Zod made way more sense than Christopher Reeve's? He did it against his will, thinking of his action as a last resort to save innocents, while Reeve just senselessly murdered Zod with a smile on his face. Answering some of unreasonable criticism below.
"2. Clark finds the suit on an abandoned Kryptonian Scout Ship. Now the point to be noted is... the ice around the ship was found to be over 3000 years old... So the ship must have landed there over 3000 years ago... While Clark's age is shown to be only 33 years... Does that mean Jor-El sent a ship to Earth 3000 years ago, with a suit that he wanted to give as a gift to his son 3000 years later???" In the movie, Superman's suit is just your common, everyday clothing. Clark just happened to find a normal Kryptonian suit and use it (the ship was from El's House, indeed, but this house has many members).
"5. Clark Kent grows up on Earth and spends 33 years of his life adjusting to his powers... Zod does that in minutes?????? 6. The much awaited Superman's Rippled Shield of the house of El which was much advertised... I didn't see in on Superman's suit... I saw it at the end-credits..." Clark had to learn everything all by himself, without any kind of support or training. When Clark was learning his powers, he had no idea what they were, or how they worked, and had to master then without even knowing his full capabilities. Zod, however, was an Kryptonian general genetically engineered to be both a fighter and a fast learner, and he already knew what kind of powers he should be able to use, after all he had seem someone else using it (while Clark did not). He was also way older than Clark, and therefore more experienced in learning than a child raised by common farmers.
"7. Superman goes super-sonic??? Blasphemy.... He is the guy who can travel faster than the speed of light... and they only manage to make him go super-sonic??? " Someone who just discovered he can fly doesn't go around flying faster than the speed of light - actually, nothing does.
" 8. Superman never lets innocent civilians get hurt... NEVER... He will give up his own life to protect them... Yet in the entire fight sequence he never tries to take the fight away from Metropolis. Instead he keeps on ramming Zod into buildings and brings down half the city...killing God know how many..." He was fighting mainly in a part of the city already destroyed by the world machine, and in every single scene where we see the inside of these buildings where they are fighting on, there's no one in it.
"10. Superman coughs up in smoke... as shown in the movie itself... when he was a kid... he saved a bus from drowning... and then saved Pete Ross too... He is able to hold his breath under water... In the oil- rig scene... he stays under water when the oil rig explodes... When he takes flight for the first time he goes in the orbit in the outer space... all of that... and amidst a little smoke... he stars coughing like he has contracted Tuberculosis???" Holding your breath and breathing smoke are two very different things. We can hold our breaths for some time, but that does not entail that we can breath smoke for the same period without coughing.
" 11. Superman collapses and "BLEEDS" from the mouth when he enters Zod's ship... Dude.. seriously... Kryptonite makes him weak... and he becomes like an ordinary human in presence of a Red Sun like Krypton had... But never does he BLEED..." In the movie's universe, things from Krypton make Superman weaker because his powers are contingent on his being on earth. On the ship, the whole artificial environment was made to resemble Krypton - and Krypton's environment is different than our's. What do you think would happen if a normal person (and Clark is just a normal guy on Krypton) went to a different planet without any kind of mask or equipment? Even Zod and his followers have problems breathing on earth (that's what their masks are all about).
"12. And the best one of all of them... Zod is trying to kill a few people with his heat vision... Superman has Zod in a vice and he is holding Zod's head... perfectly capable of directing Zod's heat vision wherever he pleases... or he could have covered up Zod's eyes with his hand... But instead... He chose to break his neck... Wow Superman... way to stand by everything to symbolized for the last 75 years..." Zod is as strong as he is, so it isn't that easy to stop him from moving his head. Besides, if he uses one of his hands to cover Zod's eyes, he would just make it extremely easy for Zod to free himself and kill anyone he wanted to.
I think this movie deserves between 7.8 and 8, but I'll give it a 10 to counter-balance the big amount of 1's below - it makes no sense whatsoever to give this movie one star.