Where do I start?
Argh, I so wanted to enjoy this. And okay, it's not all bad. There are some nice moments, good performances from Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon and Antje Traue, and for the most part it runs along as a Superman film should. As for the big guy himself, I've always thought Superman is a tough character to play and, with the exception of Tom Welling's Smallville version, always comes across a little wooden, no matter who has the role. Cavill does a reasonable job, but holy cow I think Gym Jones went a bit too far with his physique.
My biggest gripe? The lack of any decent cinematography. I guess it's too expensive to hang around and wait for perfect light conditions these days. So they handed all that to the CGI boys and all the principle photography was in the form of a shaky hand held, shoved so close to the characters' faces we could see every nose hair and pimple. Can't see one iota of background so who cares about light conditions? And with all the bobbing and weaving, guess who started feeling nauseous about half way through? Ugh...
Second biggest gripe? The script. It's non-existent. It's like they gathered a few bubbles of comic book dialogue, threw it in and figured yep - that'll do. Sorry fellas, no it won't. There was also a point where the film should have ended - right there - but hell no they had to keep on going. Sigh. A bit less money on zip, zip, KABOOM (especially in the latter section) and more on a decent script and this could have been so much better.
Oh, crap I don't know.... six out of ten, maybe.
