Man of Steel - Revisited

Zack Snyder & David S. Goyer team-up for their take on Superman (Henry Cavill), a man who has been insecure about his powers and dreads what harm he could cause, overcomes these obstacles and begins his flight as Superman.

The story starts on Krypton in its last days. Here we see a planet that has become woefully entrenched within dystopian social norms.  Jor-El (Russel Crowe)& Lara El (Ayelet Zurer) have given birth naturally, an heretical act on Kryptonian’s society, where children are genetically manufactured to fill in the nation’s roles, but the Last son of Krypton has been deprived of roles, given a free choice to continue the Kryptonian legacy on Earth, by Jor-El’s design.

General Zod (Michael Shannon) is the once proud military commander of Krypton and friend to Jor-El, now nothing more than a renegade with his fellow criminals. Lieutenant Faora-Ul (Antje Traue) is incredibly sexy, there is nothing sexier than a warrior goddess annihilating everything on her path from her faster than a speeding bullet finishing moves as she dukes jabs & uppercuts mercilessly.

And here I think is some flaw I have with this movie, Snyder & Goyer have created this world full of lore and wonder, the whole Kryptonian civil war, the Kryptonian DNA codex take a lot of screen time and therefore the emphasis is on the world state more than it is on Superman. It’s a rich world, but it feels hollow due to lack of character.

  The plot left me cold, because I feel there are no real characters and things just keep happening in that typical Summer blockbuster way, but that still doesn’t stop me from being keen to see where the sequel will take, because this movie as a whole is a big origin story for Superman, Krypton and how Earth gets a new status-quo as they know they are not alone in this universe.

I’m not a writer nor am I director, I highly appreciated showcasing Superman’s urban heroism and the scene where Superman goes against the alien world engine and utterly gives everything he has to save the planet, is the scene that truly sells Henry Cavill as the Man of Tomorrow.

Hans Zimmer’s score was at first rather forgettable, as everything sounds so majestic; but it has grown on me during the years and that majestic sound really does feel truly fitting for Superman.

Zack Snyder has however successfully told us a story, that despite how great your father might be, he still might have some incredibly horrible friends. 

Either way, I’m excited and cautiously optimistic to see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice tomorrow!