Friday 14 June 2013

Man Of Steel:


MAY CONTAIN SPOLIERS




What can i say after the last superman which was shocking i went into this with a open mind. So its a basic origins story of how superman came to be.

The women i went with were very excited to see Henry Cavill in a skin tight suit and they were not disappointed cause the first few scenes with him in are him topless.

So the film starts on Krypton as you would expect and it goes in to fine detail with why the planet is breaking up and why they need to send Kal-el off to earth they spend a good 15 minutes on the planet giving you a feel for their home planet and the technology they have. It was nice to see Krypton as i have no idea how it would have looked as it was never really portrayed in the other films.

We then follow Clark Kent around going from place to place saving people and trying to blend into a normal life that he wanted as this goes on we get plenty of flash back scenes with life lessons from his parents.The flash back scenes are very cut and paste but i wouldn't expect much else from Zack Snyder.
We also see him struggle as a kid with his powers which is another thing we haven't seen before which i appreciated as a nice touch.

I wont go into the story too much but its basically an alien invasion and humans realising we aren't alone in the universe. Its was good to see how the trusts builds between superman and the army as neither trust each other at the beginning. Its a classic story of to save a race you have to kill a race.

The costumes in this are fantastic love the armour with the Kryptonians wear, as is Superman's suit very cool.

Henry Cavill's superman is fantastic he pulled it off very well and it was nice to have a Clark Kent which isn't clumsy ect to hide his identity.
I found that we didn't really the Daily planet in the film as Perry white was not an important part of the story and we end up following him for a few scenes which we didn't need. As for Lois Lane yes she works there but she could have easily been a freelancer who was trying to sell the story to the daily planet.

The film is very long about 2 1/2 hours it probably could have been edited down and got rid of some of the flash back scenes if you ask me. The music levels were too high in my opinion and a lot of music to help build drama and tension. I never once felt threatened by the antagonist or in real danger it lacked suspense and thrills for me.


One of the big positives of this film is NO Kryptionite in the film and we see a weakened Superman on a space ship which is explained as the breathing system is from their home world which meant that it had kryptionite in. Another thing this film doesn't have is Lex Luthor which is great after the last film but he wasn't completely forgotten as we see a Lexcorp truck. Remember in the original films there was a big ice place called the fortress of solitude where there isn't one any more just a space ship he learns his background stuff from and a plot point too.

The fight scenes were very good and not boring at all good to see him fight with other people with speed and strength that he has. Was nice to see a fight scene with out any slow-mo scenes too.

Trivia: the word superman is only used 3 times

Overall thoughts is it ok not amazing like the Batman reboot could do with losing a few scenes.
6 out of ten

If you are unsure check out the trailer
Thanks for reading
Dave

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