'Superman: Man of Steel' is a movie that essentially embodies the phrase, 'We really didn't think this through...' Unfortunately, I only have 400 words here, so I'll keep this as condensed as I can. Man of Steel suffers from a lot of things. It suffers from — outside of Perry Laurence Fishburn, Ma Kent, and maybe Louis — some pretty poor and wooden acting. It suffers from a sterile, lifeless mood and tone that makes you think you're watching a different movie altogether. It suffers from a few different scenes that make you think you are watching a different movie altogether, specifically, a horror movie. (X-Rays, skulls, and at least one other thing.) It suffers from an ill-thought out use of shakey-cam. It suffers from poorly laid out pacing, with the majority consisting of rather uninteresting attempts at drama, (and the bleh acting doesn't really help,) and with the action being mostly saved for the last parts of the movie, which all comes at you at once. It suffers from 1-dimensional characterization, which isn't helped by the mostly bleh acting, and so, because you aren't attached to most of the characters, Superman included, you don't really care about the fights as a result.
But most importantly of all, it suffers from a plot that you could swear wasn't looked over before they started filming the movie. A film filled with so many things unexplained, and so many instances of 'pull it out of your ass', and also with so many instances of wall-banging, that you could swear this was written by actual monkeys on a typewriter. And it doesn't help that the plot ultimately results in Superman killing somebody. And don't get me started on 'there wasn't any other way.' Anyone who saw the scene; Clark could have easily tilted Zod's head to the opposite direction, and thus saved all of those people without killing him. The problem with having Superman killing people is twofold. One is that he has so much raw power; if he just went about killing people, that power could go to his head. But Superman is also the definite Superhero; the Superhero that all other Superheroes should be compared to. And by having killed someone, he comes across as being no better then anyone else.
Didn't Think This Through: The Movie
'Superman: Man of Steel' is a movie that essentially embodies the phrase, 'We really didn't think this through...' Unfortunately, I only have 400 words here, so I'll keep this as condensed as I can. Man of Steel suffers from a lot of things. It suffers from — outside of Perry Laurence Fishburn, Ma Kent, and maybe Louis — some pretty poor and wooden acting. It suffers from a sterile, lifeless mood and tone that makes you think you're watching a different movie altogether. It suffers from a few different scenes that make you think you are watching a different movie altogether, specifically, a horror movie. (X-Rays, skulls, and at least one other thing.) It suffers from an ill-thought out use of shakey-cam. It suffers from poorly laid out pacing, with the majority consisting of rather uninteresting attempts at drama, (and the bleh acting doesn't really help,) and with the action being mostly saved for the last parts of the movie, which all comes at you at once. It suffers from 1-dimensional characterization, which isn't helped by the mostly bleh acting, and so, because you aren't attached to most of the characters, Superman included, you don't really care about the fights as a result.
But most importantly of all, it suffers from a plot that you could swear wasn't looked over before they started filming the movie. A film filled with so many things unexplained, and so many instances of 'pull it out of your ass', and also with so many instances of wall-banging, that you could swear this was written by actual monkeys on a typewriter. And it doesn't help that the plot ultimately results in Superman killing somebody. And don't get me started on 'there wasn't any other way.' Anyone who saw the scene; Clark could have easily tilted Zod's head to the opposite direction, and thus saved all of those people without killing him. The problem with having Superman killing people is twofold. One is that he has so much raw power; if he just went about killing people, that power could go to his head. But Superman is also the definite Superhero; the Superhero that all other Superheroes should be compared to. And by having killed someone, he comes across as being no better then anyone else.