The beginning of the film is elaborate, exploring Krypton and explaining how the alien child landed on earth and what he is expected to do here on earth. The Krypton part is well imagined and portrayed. Zack Snyder, who became obsessed with creating wildly creative and dreamily realistic time and space in his "Sucker Punch" took care here that its not all about the astonishing bewilderment that the visuals generate but about the proceedings that the audience could relate to. After the child lands on earth, the film cleverly chooses a jumbled screenplay that allowed the film to take its own time to explain what it got to. Because they chose to explain not how he became Superman but about why he remained a man.
This film follows the trend of the new age superhero movies that believe the "MAN" inside the superhero is who drives the alter ego. Batman and Iron man managed to mix the genre thrills with the core-human aspect. The batman trilogy dared to get as dark as it can get, to portray what "Being a batman" is. Being a batman, he has the limitations of a human, he has to deal with villains who have extremist evil ways but are humans at the end of the day. That allowed the three films to let their action episodes take place in a visually comprehensible time and space continuum. As per that template, "Being a superman" begs for a larger world, villains with superpowers, and spectacular visual effects that need to be complex enough to convince you that beyond a point you dont need to follow the action exactly as you are not expected to. Anyways, they are way faster and smarter than we can observe. Thats why when special effects throw away the people from the screen, you dont complain much. But for how long? What about the little Superman-pleasures?
While I was watching the film, I had a small question lingering in my mind. When Superman doesn't enjoy being himself, how can we like him? I dont mean that the character is not fully developed but my question is "Is it too much if we ask for a little humour?" Henry Cavill is always with stiff lips and serious expressions. I personally, expected at least some romance between Superman and Lois Lane. If you were to remind me of their smooch, for your information, I wouldn't call that romance.
Well.This film has all the ingredients it got to have. Spectacular action episodes(though slightly prolonged), music that upholds the hype of the visual, fine performances, and averagely written dialogue.
As a final say, this is not on par with "THE DARK KNIGHT" but entertaining in its own way. I enjoyed it.
