Cast : Henry Cavill : Superman Michael Shannon : Zod Amy Adams : Lois Lane
Director :
Zack Snyder
Summary
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this
Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and
what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to
save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all
mankind.
My opinion
Born on Krypton and raised on Earth, you had the best of both and were meant to be the bridge between two worlds.
Superman never
was my favorite among all the other superheroes . I
thought he looked like a pussy and not just because he was always wearing his
underpants in the wrong way. If
you compare him with Spiderman , Batman , The Hulk , The Magnificent Seven ,
Dare Devil and The X -men , he is actually just a lousy figure . Most
of the other superheroes have been mutated by radiation , chemical waste or bitten
by a spider. Superman just crashed on Earth , got his superpowers cause gravity
on his home planet is much larger and gets weaker when he comes near to a
simple green luminescent material called kryptonite. As a
teenager I really didn’t think it was that thrilling.
I was 12 years old when I saw the first movie in which Christopher Reeve
starred as Superman. I was quite
impressed by this film . Compared
with this Man Of Steel the special effects weren’t that breathtaking , but at
that time they were state of the art . A
positive thing is that they didn’t just copy the complete original movie. Man
of Steel is told in a very different way . The
only thing I missed was Lex Luther and the way in which General Zod and his crew
were banished from the planet Krypton . I
found those flat plates flying off into space quite original and a clever idea
to use it that way.
However I have mixed feelings about this movie. I
liked the first part on Krypton and the introduction of Superman to the people
on Earth was a strong start . Until
Zod arrives . Then it all
feels exaggerated in a way. The
layout and images of the endangered planet Krypton and the takeover by Zod are
simply stunning and an indication of what was to come . Beautiful
special
effects and CGI that made me sit back to enjoy the rest that was to
come. These images can be compared with those of the better contemporary
SF .
First we see Superman as a wandering young man who tries to keep
his powers to
a limit and not to reveal it to mankind . The flashbacks show his
difficult
childhood in which he clearly struggles whether or not to use these
powers . Cavill was
exceptionally brilliant in his role . And not
just because the costume has been restyled . Kevin
Costner and Diane Lane as his human father and mother both were convincing. Amy
Adams has a cute face , but as Lois Lane , she didn’t really appeal to me . The
relationship with Superman was not as pronounced here as in the old movie. To
me it seemed not more than an ordinary friendship between the two characters . The
discovery of the spaceship and Cavill’s further development as Superman were
extremely well developed. The
way he discovers his powers and the way this is shown on the screen, especially
him flying through the sound barrier, is stunning.
Zod and his crew land on the planet Earth and ask to turn in Superman . What
we get then is a show of mind-blowing power development with such a destructive
force that turns Metropolis in a ruin. Hard
action was to be expected , but this was an over exaggerated display . Half
an hour of collapsing buildings and skyscrapers , smashed flat cars, crashing
satellites and flying debris . I
thought these apocalyptic images would never end. After
a while I wasn’t watching out of admiration anymore , but rather out of boredom
, when Superman or Zod were thrown again through a series of buildings and tons
of all kinds of heavy equipment was smashed in their face. Despite
the fact that they are actually indestructible and feel no pain, they had to
get up out of a painful semiconscious state to continue with the hopeless
showdown . The
most ridiculous thing was yet to come. After an inhuman exhausting fight it all
ends with a simple snap of Zods neck. We’ve seen that enough times in a rather
normal action movie. Why didn’t they end the whole matter by sending them back
to the Phantom Zone like they did with Zods spacecraft and his crew ? Well, ultimately
it all has to end somehow! Finally
one more fact that annoys me about Superman . He
gets a job at the Dailey Planet and is (how is it possible) unrecognizable by
wearing normal looking glasses. Just awful :)
Man of Steel . Not a super movie . It’s
excellent in using current computer technology to make everything look smooth
and slick. But what an exaggerated destructive half hour to finish. I was not really blown away
by it !
Genre : Fantasy/Adventure
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