Despite the top casting and some dazzling action sure to please fans,
with a bloated story, an exposition-heavy and context-via-flashback
reliant screenplay, an unsatisfying and drawn-out final confrontation
and wearying slews of destruction, to name a few,
Man of Steel is fraught with issues. Zack Snyder (
300, Watchmen) is at the helm of
Man of Steel deemed a dubious decision during the production and confirmed post-viewing, with Chris Nolan (
Inception, Memento)
serving as producer and story co-creator (along with screenwriter David
S. Goyer). Nolan has undeniable influence over the project, and I’d say
a big contributor to the film’s darker tone, and as a result the
non-existent fun value.
Man of Steel opens on the planet Krypton, which is facing
imminent destruction. A scientist, Jor-El (Russell Crowe), and a
renegade military commander leading a coup, General Zod (Michael
Shannon), face off to try and preserve the Kryptonian race. In a
desperate attempt to save his people, Jor-El sends his son Kal-el, the
first natural birth in a very long time, and Krypton’s genetic codex, to
Earth and banishes General Zod and his followers to the ‘Phantom Zone’.
But, upon Krypton’s obliteration Zod is released and sets his sights on
finding Kal-El.
Raised the adopted son of Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent
(Dianne Lane), Kal-El (Henry Cavill) is named Clark. His physiology has
left him with superhuman abilities, powers he intuitively uses to help
others but has to learn to harness. His father, to devlop Clark’s moral
compass, advises him not use them publicly until he believes humanity is
ready to accept him. He drifts mysteriously between jobs, saving
stranded oil riggers and wandering through the Arctic. When Zod touches
down on Earth searching for the alien hidden in the midst, Clark dons
the suit, finding an unlikely ally in a ‘Pulitzer Prize Winning’ Daily
Planet reporter, Lois Lane (Amy Adams), and sets about fulfilling his
destiny.
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