So Yesterday I took my dad to see Man of Steel as a Fathers Day Treat. The move stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Russel Crow as Jor-el Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Mr and Mrs Kent and Amy Adams Lois Lane.
Let me start by saying that this movie was anticipated by many. Me as well not only because I wanted to see this:
Or this:
I was actually looking forward to a GOOD Superman film. With a good story. Sadly as hot and sexy and delicious as Henry Cavill is the plot sucked. It was all over the place and it never really connected, way to much back and forth and way too much focus on all the CGI special effects... which were cool but really I didn't spend money just to watch 2 fight scenes and buildings collapsing. Also the interaction with Lois Lane and Superman was weird I don't know they were like friends so fast after only one meeting and suddenly she is the love of his life??
It starts on Planet Krypton and it seems that the planet is falling apart and is in the midst of being destroyed. Faora-Ul is then giving birth to Kal-el the first natural birth in Krypton in years which seemed to be a big deal and Jor-el know that his son was special and had to save him before the whole planet blew up so he steals some sort of key and gets ready to ship his son to earth in some kind of pod. Cue the bad dude who comes in and says they have to stop this. The mom finally presses the launch button and off Kal-el goes to earth.
The next part we see a fishing boat and a glimpse of the yummy all grown up Kal-el AKA Clark Kent who is not using his name. This was confusing because it just jumped to his adulthood and him saving a bunch of people in a tower that was on fire. NO reference saying PRESENT DAY or anything. Then he is in the water and he starts having flashbacks and we see a young Clark but still no reference on how the parents found him.
After the back and forth from youth to adulthood we meet Lois lane she is in the Arctic somewhere doing a story when she captures Superman on camera going somewhere so she follows him into this weird maze. We see Clark have some interaction with his real dad Jor-El and in 5 min he is brought up to speed about who he really is blah blah blah. of course Lois gets herself into shit by being nosy and Clark comes and saves her and she is amazed by his super strength.
Then we see her go back and open a can of worms and butt into his life to find out who his is by doing some investigating. she ends up at Clarks dads (his earth dad's) grave and superman appears he seems trust worthy of Lois who he met for mere minutes and tells her everything about him.
Then we find out the bad dudes are coming apparently there were frozen and sent to a black hole but that all changed when Krypton blew up so they come to earth saying give up superman or else. HE does the noble thing and surrenders but of course they want Lois too. so she goes with Clark on the evil dudes ship. While on the ship Superman becomes weak. you would think we would be introduced to Kryptonite which is supposed to be the only thing that weakens superman but apparently being on a weird ship makes him weak as well. Lois in the mean time is thrown into some room where she sees a key slot which matches something that Superman gave her once they got on the ship so she inserts it and Jor-el appears telling her he knows the way to stop the bad dudes and he will tell her how. so then he leads her into a pod of some sort and she launches out of the ship and superman is back to normal because JOr-el has altered something so he can be strong so they fight and he saves Lois blah blah
So this bad dude came to earth because he wants to make the new Krypton and bring back his people but what he doesn't know is that Jor-el embedded what he needed in a secret place so he decides to destroy earth and launches 2 big ships that land one in downtown Smallville one in some ocean. then it starts basically sucking everything up then throwing it down.. cue the special effects and the buildings collapsing. First big fight commences alot of throwing people around eventually the bad people go to the ship again.
a few fillers and kisses between Lois and superman then she tells him how to put the bad people into the black whole and they attempt it while superman goes to the other hub in the ocean he stops it which stops the other ship which allows them to send the bad dudes to the vortex of nothing well most of them the leader managed to escape and then him and superman duke it out for a long time smashing and bringing down more buildings
After a too long and boring fight all is right with the world. and the next scene Superman is with his earth mom telling her he is going to find a job where he can blend in so we see him going into the elevator of the daily planet and putting on his glasses and being introduced to everyone including Lois who seems to have NO idea who his is like WTF dude is just wearing glasses she like sucked face with him and looked into his dreamy eyes so many times in the movie and she has NO idea who he is?? BAH!!
Too much special effects not enough story at all. They touched on some things but never fully explained them. and honestly after a while it got boring it was 2 and a half hours and it seems they had to drag it out just so they can get to the blowing up of buildings etc.
My rating well 10 out of 10 for the super hot sexy Henry Cavil and all the scenes that showed of his chiseled body
3 out of 10 for the movie itself. Ladies if you want to gather the girls for 2hours of eye candy then I recommend seeing this film you wont be disappointed in that sense at all
I hear through the grapevine that a second movie has already been confirmed lets hope next time they focus more on the plot
