If you have not watched the movie Man of Steel, stop reading now. There are spoilers in this piece.
For those who have already watched it, for those who have already sat for over 2 hours, I say a big sorry to you. You could have spent your time learning how to knit.
The movie was not that bad to be truthful. If it was called Captain Kola the great or Super Lukman, it would have been a master piece, but it was not. This is Superman, Christopher Reeves superman, Lois and Clark, Smallville and so on. This movie has history, pedigree and culture. People like me grew up wearing towels around our necks and jumping off tables pretending to fly. The original Superman movie was in a class of its own, this new movie is in a class of almost good.
The problem started from removing his red pants. If it isn't broke then don't try to fix it. The red cape goes with the red pants. Then his outfit was not even proper blue, it was a dark kind of grey. Messing with the threads has never worked.
Next the dialogue in the movie was too serious, or should I say it was pretending to be serious. What was with the S stands for hope or was it peace, I think I was half asleep at this point. Then there was the leave all of them die on the bus part. What father tells his super son not to save a bunch of kids because you're afraid of then knowing who you are? Never liked Kevin Costner and like him less now, best part of the movie was when he died saving a dog. Water world, dancing with wolves, The Postman, Wyatt Earp and so on, dude is just not the best. But give him big ups for The Untouchables.
The script wasn't much better either. Why kill off half of Metropolis when you could have just flown into space from the get go, and throw your baby spaceship at the big spaceship. Really, your virtual dad could have told you that easily enough. The fight scenes were all in fast forward, so only a few of us with super sight could enjoy it, The babes where always close to good looking but never really stunning enough to remember. Even the leather wearing super space chick didn't do it for me. To think the best looking babe in the whole movie was Sups Krypton mother. Now she should have been made a virtual mother or should I say virtual mama sita (wink wink). The whole movie was off, if your are bred to be scientists, where did you and your dad learn to fight so well that you beat the head of the Krypton army twice. No wonder Krypton blew up, they got the geeks fighting and the jocks experimenting.
Oh before I forget, Perry White is not black, I repeat he is not black. First Nick Fury, then this. What next Santa?
The knock out punch for poor sups was that it came soon after the Avengers and went toe to toe with Iron Man III. That is like watching Champions league finals followed immediately by a division 3 match. Like eating from Gordon Ramsey followed by 3 day old bread. If you were starving the bread would taste heavenly, but you're not.
We have been spoilt rotten with a host of superb, splendid and magnificent super hero movies in the last few years. from XMen to wolverine to Thor to the big daddy of them all Avengers. "I'm always angry", gave everyone goose bumps. You now try to force feed us this lifeless, soulless poor excuse for a super flick. To this we say NO!
Finally, the ultimate spoiler of this movie, the bit that really cooks the goose for all us comic book fanatics. Superman does not kill.
This is my opinion and if you think otherwise please leave me a comment. But be warned, if you like this movie, you will be asking for more of the same.