Man of Steel is a action packed yet flawed Superman movie.
Man of Steel centers around Clark Kent who is an alien sent to earth as a baby by his father Jor El after his home planet Krypton explodes.
Clark spends most of his time in hiding until General Zod, a prisoned kryptonian criminal comes to earth looking for him as Zod plans to turn earth into Krypton using a world engine.
Clark must now stop Zod from terraforming the earth as Superman.
When I heard they were doing a reboot of the Superman franchise it didn't really shock me.
Mostly because the last few Superman movies weren't exactly a whole lot to write home about with Superman 4 (1987) being a disaster due to its low budget and the underwhelming Superman Returns (2006) which wasn't bad but not exactly really exciting either.
Man of Steel however manages to be a more actioned pack but also a little more dreary.
The movie starts off on Krypton where we see the typical events of Joe El sending Kal El aka Superman to earth but they add a little more to make it more exciting. Like having there being a war while the planet was getting ready to explode and having Jor El actually fighting General Zod which I liked.
I will admit there is a little too much going on in it though because not only is there a war happening but also they have other things happening like them explaining that Kal El is the last natural Kryptonian birth and him having something called the codex embedded into him.
Which I guess is also interesting but because you can tell they're trying to rush through the Krypton scenes so we can get to the main earth scenes it feels a little rushed.
In fact the whole 1st act where they tried to tell Superman's origin again is kind of all over the place because after the krypton scenes they cut to Kal El (now Clark Kent) as a adult which was kind of weird as I was expecting them to go over all the stuff that happens to him in as a kid/teenager in a cohesive straight forward story but instead they just randomly flashback to his childhood every so often which was really distracting.
Thankfully as soon as we get to the 2nd act they stop doing that and the movie straight up just becomes an action movie with Superman fighting the kryptonians which was much better.
In fact all the action in this movie is amazing. A huge improvement over Superman Returns (2006), a movie that definitely lacked that.
I will admit though the characters and plot fall a little flat at times.
I don't know if it's because the 1st act of the movie was kind of all over the place but all the characters in the movie feel a standard.
Like they're not bad or anything just okay.
Mostly because there's not a whole lot of sense of joy or fun in this movie save for a couple of scenes which I guess makes sense considering the plot but it also makes the movie feel a bit lacking too.
The camera work in this movie is also terrible with a lot of shaky cam which I'm not a big fan of. I mean the camera even shakes when there just talking and it's really distracting/annoying.
Still though this movie is a lot more entertaining than Superman Returns (2006) due to all the action and I can see why it has its fans.
I just wish the movie was better constructed (Especially in the 1st act) and the characters were a little more upbeat.
Man of Steel centers around Clark Kent who is an alien sent to earth as a baby by his father Jor El after his home planet Krypton explodes.
Clark spends most of his time in hiding until General Zod, a prisoned kryptonian criminal comes to earth looking for him as Zod plans to turn earth into Krypton using a world engine.
Clark must now stop Zod from terraforming the earth as Superman.
When I heard they were doing a reboot of the Superman franchise it didn't really shock me.
Mostly because the last few Superman movies weren't exactly a whole lot to write home about with Superman 4 (1987) being a disaster due to its low budget and the underwhelming Superman Returns (2006) which wasn't bad but not exactly really exciting either.
Man of Steel however manages to be a more actioned pack but also a little more dreary.
The movie starts off on Krypton where we see the typical events of Joe El sending Kal El aka Superman to earth but they add a little more to make it more exciting. Like having there being a war while the planet was getting ready to explode and having Jor El actually fighting General Zod which I liked.
I will admit there is a little too much going on in it though because not only is there a war happening but also they have other things happening like them explaining that Kal El is the last natural Kryptonian birth and him having something called the codex embedded into him.
Which I guess is also interesting but because you can tell they're trying to rush through the Krypton scenes so we can get to the main earth scenes it feels a little rushed.
In fact the whole 1st act where they tried to tell Superman's origin again is kind of all over the place because after the krypton scenes they cut to Kal El (now Clark Kent) as a adult which was kind of weird as I was expecting them to go over all the stuff that happens to him in as a kid/teenager in a cohesive straight forward story but instead they just randomly flashback to his childhood every so often which was really distracting.
Thankfully as soon as we get to the 2nd act they stop doing that and the movie straight up just becomes an action movie with Superman fighting the kryptonians which was much better.
In fact all the action in this movie is amazing. A huge improvement over Superman Returns (2006), a movie that definitely lacked that.
I will admit though the characters and plot fall a little flat at times.
I don't know if it's because the 1st act of the movie was kind of all over the place but all the characters in the movie feel a standard.
Like they're not bad or anything just okay.
Mostly because there's not a whole lot of sense of joy or fun in this movie save for a couple of scenes which I guess makes sense considering the plot but it also makes the movie feel a bit lacking too.
The camera work in this movie is also terrible with a lot of shaky cam which I'm not a big fan of. I mean the camera even shakes when there just talking and it's really distracting/annoying.
Still though this movie is a lot more entertaining than Superman Returns (2006) due to all the action and I can see why it has its fans.
I just wish the movie was better constructed (Especially in the 1st act) and the characters were a little more upbeat.