09.11.2006

God I hate Superman, not only because he's just a character that has no real depth to him; just a bunch of cool super powers with almost no equal, but also because Superman stole the glue that was holding the X-men series together. That is Bryan Singer; a writer/director who feels it’s good to keep your movies based more in reality and is more focused on the inner struggles of the characters rather than all about action. That formula worked well with X-men, he seemed to do wonders with the broad scope of characters that movie had with the twists and turns of the comic books but put his own feel to it... Unfortunately, the same can not be said about Superman. This movie is a whopping 2 hours and 45 minutes and I can honestly say that there wasn’t one moment where I was like "Wow... that was amazing". To sum it up, the plot is so thick with character relationship it leaves much to be desired as far as all out action goes. Don’t get me wrong. A large portion of this movie is "Let’s see what cool stuff Superman can do", but when it comes down to the real guts of confrontation, it only lasted about 10 minutes.

Another thing that made me annoyed is the Kryptonite aspect. In the comics, old movies, and series, Superman can’t even come 10 feet toward Kryptonite without keeling over in pain. But this movie he flies right up to an entire land mass made of Kryptonite and all it does is make his power go away and he sweats. He even gets stabbed with a Krypto-shive and is able to lift a gigantic land mass into space...in-freakin-possible.

(Spoiler) and the kid aspect of this movie made no sense due to the fact that if you've ever seen Mall Rats, if Superman ever blew his load in Lois Lane it would shoot a hole right through her skull, and that the only woman strong enough to take his seed is Wonder Woman.

It wasn’t a bad movie by any stretch but it wasn’t that great. Just an ok.