Saturday, March 05, 2016

Movie review - "Man of Steel" (2013) ****

I enjoyed this so much more than I thought I would, helped by an excellent script via David Goyer who assumes we know the Superman story and so plays around with structure, shoving us right into it. Henry Cavill isn't a particularly interesting Superman/Clark Kent but he's okay and there is superb support from Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon.

Shannon's Zod is a worthy antagonist and has some great knock-down brawls with Cavill. It looks terrific and there's a booming Hans Zimmer score which is perfect.

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