I went into this movie hopeful. I prayed Zack Snyder wouldn't mess things up. I prayed Henry Cavill would make a good Superman, and that Michael Shannon would somehow live upto Terrence Stamp's iconic Zod. I prayed they could somehow work both the origin story and an actual compelling plotline and villain into the film.
And for once I was not disappointed. Cavill and Shannon are excellent, as is the rest of the cast. The story is good, showing Superman's transition from reluctant hero to icon. Perhaps more importantly, there's an understanding that this is a film, not a comic book, and that things that work in comics do not work onscreen. When Superman and Zod throw down, Metropolis takes a lot of punishment. When confronted with the option of killing Zod or letting him continue to rampage, Superman does the sensible thing and kills Zod. Lois Lane isn't fooled by the "Clark Kent" disguise, and is in fact in on the secret from the start. These are all things that help Superman transition from the world of comics to the world of film.
Will there be naysayers and people who complain about how the film isn't "true to the comics". Sure. But since many of these same people have no issues with the changes that Christopher Nolan made in his Batman films, it's hard to take them seriously. I am a comic book purist myself, and yet, despite that, I do not feel that this film in any way "betrayed" its source material. Rather it took that source material and brought it to life, in a way that few comic book films do.
Excellent Film
I went into this movie hopeful. I prayed Zack Snyder wouldn't mess things up. I prayed Henry Cavill would make a good Superman, and that Michael Shannon would somehow live upto Terrence Stamp's iconic Zod. I prayed they could somehow work both the origin story and an actual compelling plotline and villain into the film.
And for once I was not disappointed. Cavill and Shannon are excellent, as is the rest of the cast. The story is good, showing Superman's transition from reluctant hero to icon. Perhaps more importantly, there's an understanding that this is a film, not a comic book, and that things that work in comics do not work onscreen. When Superman and Zod throw down, Metropolis takes a lot of punishment. When confronted with the option of killing Zod or letting him continue to rampage, Superman does the sensible thing and kills Zod. Lois Lane isn't fooled by the "Clark Kent" disguise, and is in fact in on the secret from the start. These are all things that help Superman transition from the world of comics to the world of film.
Will there be naysayers and people who complain about how the film isn't "true to the comics". Sure. But since many of these same people have no issues with the changes that Christopher Nolan made in his Batman films, it's hard to take them seriously. I am a comic book purist myself, and yet, despite that, I do not feel that this film in any way "betrayed" its source material. Rather it took that source material and brought it to life, in a way that few comic book films do.
Highly recommended.