Doomsday

Who green lit a Superman movie without Clark Kent? Man of Steel is charmless. Charmless.

The sound effects are ridiculously loud, as in cymbal crashes for the lights going on and off.

The scenes are pasted together with less congruity than some bulletin boards I've seen. I was constantly thinking how did we get to this part?

Lois Lane, a  hard-nosed journalist says, "What if I need to tinkle?"

The heat vision is way overused.

Russell Crowe has *Must Beat Someone's Ass (I was in Gladiator, Damnit!)* written into his contract.

Clark Kent totally accepts the Superman outfit like it's not some weird costume he's suddenly supposed to wear.

Clark Kent would not display/missuse his powers because a trucker got under his skin.

Superman levels a city with no thought to its inhabitants.

The military lets a civilian sidestep all their roadblocks, from walking around a TOP SECRET dig site to hopping onto an alien spacecraft.

The audience gets beat over the head with the Superman Messiah  mythos over and over, actually referring to Kal as "Son of El", making his, excuse me, His, body the sole savior of an entire race, using the number 33 twice, using two cast members from the other savior movie, The Matrix, and falling out of orbit in crucifix formation. We get it, Zach.

He never uses his ice breath.

There is no scene of him doing anything journalistic in any way, yet he walks onto the staff of the Daily Planet to be a stringer.

There is no reason for Lois Lane to kiss him. The scene is forced and painful.

People are upset that Superman kills Zod, but there wasn't anything in the movie that led me to believe he was operating under some moral code. My question is why didn't he just kill Zod in the first place?

Killing Zod is lazy. At first I thought What else was he supposed to do? But he could have just froze him with his ice breath, or put his impervious hand over Zod's eyes. I bet a Best Boy suggested that and Snyder lost his shit and started screaming something about 300.

Perry White is edgeless and tired.



Here are some good things about the movie:

Kevin Costner's performance.

Zod's motivation is believable.

It's the best Zach Snyder movie I've seen.