This is a full spoiler review on Man of Steel (2013) so if
you haven’t seen it, watch it then come back, otherwise click here to see our
spoiler free review.
Man of Steel is out, it’s awesome and it has a terrible
rating Rotten Tomatoes which means I have to do a spoiler review.
The film starts of on Krypton, Jor-El’s wife Lara just had a
baby, the planet is going to explode and he needs to talk the council about it.
The prologue was absolutely amazing; it was one of the highest points in the
film where it had great dialogue, emotion and action. I think that Russell
Crowe did an amazing job as Jor-El because I never cared about his character until
he played him, and you didn’t like because he was Superman’s father you just
liked him because he was likeable.
Then Zod comes in, he duels with Jor-El who’s preparing his
son Kal-El to go to Earth and sends the codes which could save Krypton on the
ship, Kal-El flies away and Zod kills Jor-El. I was totally on board with the
film, Kal-El is shown in Smallvile, Kansas and the scene cuts off.
That’s when it dropped down, Kal-El now named Clark isn’t
speaking a lot, he stops this oil rampage, and then he starts hitchhiking on
the road, and it all jumbled up. It then cut to Lois Lane played by Amy Adams
whom I think was fantastic in the film and she’s looking for this object which
turns out to e the fortress of Solitude which isn’t a big part of the film,
Clark saves Lois from this robot, finds out where he is from.
The whole scene in Antarctica was paced really weirdly and
it was off but as soon as Lois wakes and starts writing that article about the
alien that saved her aka Kal-El I was back on track.
The hand-filming was awesome it looked great. Visually this
film is perfect.
Lawrence Fishbourne as Perry White was great and that one
scene where everything is about to be destroyed and he holds the photographer’s
hand and they start to hope, she tops crying and the music plays was really
emotional.
This movie surprised me a lot actually, I was disappointed to
how much I was not enjoying it until that moment where we see Jonathan Kent die
which I thought was really powerful, the ending where Superman kills Zod
because he had no other choice worked perfectly for me because e had the
courage to do what it takes and the scene between Superman and Jor-El where he tells
him “You can save all of them” where the best scenes in the film, there should
have been more of that.
Some of the complaints about the film are that there’s too
much action. I totally disagree, I watched twice and there isn’t much action
for fifty minutes since the prologue (without oil rampage). It felt like there
was a lot going on which I don’t know if it’s a good thing but not much happened.
One of the complaints is that Zod was not evil enough and I think
that it’s just a different take on the character was that he was not evil
enough but he was not meant to be, he tries to be friendly with Kal-El and
Jor-El and he thinks he is doing the right thing for his people.
The film itself is more of a first contact with civilization
Superman story and as I said I walked out pretty happy wanting to see the
sequel. Henry Cavil was awesome at Superman some of the action scenes were
absolutely great and he got the personality of Clark and Superman by the end.
The theme of the film was really ‘hope’ and I hoped it would
be awesome but the first minutes after the prologue kept it from being a
masterpiece but in the end it’s one of Zack Snyder’s best film. Watchmen was amazing though.
8.3/10 (Great)
5.6 on Rotten Tomatoes? Bullshit!
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