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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6146577" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>I liked it but I didn't love it.</p><p></p><p>[sblock]The opening was awesome - Krypton actually feels alive and vivid for once, and it's a spectacular Russell Crowe action movie.</p><p></p><p>It's also nice to see a Superman movie that doesn't involve Kryptonite.</p><p></p><p>I was ambivalent about the flashbacks method used to tell Clark's origin story through the film - I felt that it worked in some instances, and broke the pacing in others.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't impressed with the characterisation at any point. Even with the main characters, we're given nothing more than the shallowest glimpse of who they are, and beyond Lois, Perry and the Kents I'd be hard pressed to put a name to any of the other human characters.</p><p></p><p>The action scenes are impressive, but they lack variety. 90% of the time it's just Kryptonians punching each other through buildings, interspersed with occasional utterly-ineffectual attacks by humans.</p><p></p><p>I liked the fact that some place was given to human forces during the final battle, in the form of bombing Zod's ship with Clark's, but it felt like a token addition. By the time they were making their attack run, Clark was already back from the other side of the world - he could've just as easily picked up his ship from the airbase and thrown it at Zod's, without needlessly sacrificing dozens of soldiers.</p><p></p><p>In the end, it felt like a war between two factions who were so far removed from humanity in terms of capability that the human race were mere bystanders, and I can't help thinking that most people would feel that the world would've been better off if Superman had never been there to bring his people's domestic disputes to the planet. I'm not sure I'd disagree.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 6146577, member: 40176"] I liked it but I didn't love it. [sblock]The opening was awesome - Krypton actually feels alive and vivid for once, and it's a spectacular Russell Crowe action movie. It's also nice to see a Superman movie that doesn't involve Kryptonite. I was ambivalent about the flashbacks method used to tell Clark's origin story through the film - I felt that it worked in some instances, and broke the pacing in others. I wasn't impressed with the characterisation at any point. Even with the main characters, we're given nothing more than the shallowest glimpse of who they are, and beyond Lois, Perry and the Kents I'd be hard pressed to put a name to any of the other human characters. The action scenes are impressive, but they lack variety. 90% of the time it's just Kryptonians punching each other through buildings, interspersed with occasional utterly-ineffectual attacks by humans. I liked the fact that some place was given to human forces during the final battle, in the form of bombing Zod's ship with Clark's, but it felt like a token addition. By the time they were making their attack run, Clark was already back from the other side of the world - he could've just as easily picked up his ship from the airbase and thrown it at Zod's, without needlessly sacrificing dozens of soldiers. In the end, it felt like a war between two factions who were so far removed from humanity in terms of capability that the human race were mere bystanders, and I can't help thinking that most people would feel that the world would've been better off if Superman had never been there to bring his people's domestic disputes to the planet. I'm not sure I'd disagree.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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