I went to go and see 'Man of Steel' last Wednesday..(orange Wednesday and all that ;) ) and I thought because I've not posted a review for a while due to different commitments such as work and what not I'd thought I'd post my thoughts on it seeing as there has been so many different mixed views on it.
*Warning Spoiler Alerts*
The film is directed by Zack Snyder (Watchmen,300,Suckerpunch) and written by David S.Goyer who wrote Christopher Nolans Highly successful Batman Trilogy. The film is produced by Christopher Nolan which again creates the question ....Justice League Film?!?!
With Nolan finishing his Batman trilogy and leaving it open to whatever can of worms it will open does create an Idea for a Justice League movie to come to the forefront. With Nolan producing this film with David S.Goyer does this mean that Nolan will oversee the Justice League Project with him eventually directing the film itself? Within the next year everything will become more clear.
The film sees newcomer British actor Henry Cavill take up the role of Superman or 'Man of Steel' which I think is a good choice as he suits the role and its nice to see an unknown take on such a big role respectively. The role of Lois Lane is played by Amy Adams who I think personally does a good job of Lois Lane. The role of the villain in this film is played by Michael Shannon, I can't judge Shannon's work as an actor as I've not seen him in that many roles. He played the role of General Zod who is from the same planet of Superman (Krypton) but sees Krypton failing as a planet and wants to inhabit another planet.
The film starts with Supermans dad Jor-El played by Russell Crowe discussing with the planets council on ways to save the civilians of the planet. He then gets attacked by Zod and this results in him sending his son to earth to protect him the evil of Zod and before the planet Krypton gets destroyed and so he can save there race. The opening scene is action packed and mainly created using CGI, a feature we've seen in Zack Snyder films previously such as 300, Suckerpunch (which is awful) and Watchmen.
The film starts off as a flashback with Superman or as his Krypton name is known which is Kal-El. I'm not gonna reference him as Clark Kent as you'll see later in a point I'll raise later on in this review. The flashbacks are edited in the Nolan style that we've seen previously in other Nolan films such as, (The Batman Trilogy,The Prestige and Inception). The character is a rescue persons such as rescuing people at sea.
The film mainly oversees Kal-El as superman mainly fighting General Zod. Due to this I felt that there was more action then story to the film. It did lack story to it and was just overrun by action which I felt was a shame as I personally wanted to see more back story to the film. There was back story to it,but there wasn't any backstory to Clark Kent. I wanted to see the origins of Clark Kent and why he became Clark Kent and less superman as I wanted to see more story and psychology to the film.
The end of the film and the DEATH...yes the DEATH of Zod see superman kill him!!!! this goes against everything superman believes in! Superman snapped Zods Kneck. If he knew he could do this why didn't he do this earlier on in the film to stop all this chaos! Batman and Superman share the same mythology in which they don't and should never kill people but will always serve whatever Justice they can.
In conclusion the film wasent the best but it wasent bad. I would watch it again but it is definitely one of those films of which it depends on what you prefer either action? Or story? But personally for me I prefer story so to be honest it was a good film but not the greatest. I would watch it again as I did enjoy it but it didn't fulfil my superman needs as a whole...but...a big but! If Christopher Nolan had directed this and had full control over it I personally would think it could be as good as his 'Batman Begins' . Finally it seems that the movie did get churned out quickly so DC/Warner Bros could get a Justice league film underway so that they can compete with Disney/Marvels Avengers...so,let the games...Begin!!
