Such a disappointment given the promising trailer

Rating: 3/10 (15 July 2015)

I was so jacked up for Man of Steel before it came out.
The trailer created this intriguing vision of a film exploring how Superman would cope in a world of short sound bites, Twitter and low attention span.
How would the public deal with him when he made the 'right' decisions rather than the 'popular' ones and whether there would be an endless crusade to get him to have a Facebook page.
How would he find his place and bother to actually care for a race that on the surface can seem pretty damn selfish.
How would he deal with a surrogate family who were desperate to keep him secret and protected, especially following the accusatory tone from the woman in the trailer 'my son was on that bus'.
Unfortunately, we didn't get that film. Just a mess of bits from the trailer (practically all of Costner's comments in the film where in the trailer), characters you didn't really care about despite how much you wanted to, hollow writing, a horribly forced and unconvincing romance, characters that are supposed to die but end up hanging around so much you don't feel they have passed away and a tiresome, bombastic and consequence free action scenes.
The action just had no meaning as in the fights neither character seemed to get an advantage from all the wanton destruction. It was like you hit me with a train, I'll smack you with a building but there was no feeling that you were wearing the other person down or gaining the upper hand.
I like action as much as the next person but there has to be a reason behind it other than it looking cool or because special effects now mean it can be done.
The buildings falling down had as much resonance as the destruction in the latter Transformers films and that's why people criticised the film. It's not because they don't understand it, it's not because they can't see the bigger picture which some arrogantly claim to do, it's simply because they didn't feel anything.
The World Engine was a classic example of the 'excess' of the film? There was no tension, there was no high stakes. He might have dodged some swirling tentacles but it was shot by the numbers and we all knew that nothing would happen, hence it was just pointless, expensive noise that further anaesthetised you to the action that would come.
I like Snyder. Dawn of the Dead and Watchmen are cracking films but this was just a very poor film.