There are two parts to this review. First - the movie . . . . . . I loved it. It was easily the best Superman movie since Superman II. I thought Cavill, Shannon and Adams were greatly cast as Superman, Zod and Lois Lane. The back and forth between present and Clark growing up kept the pacing fresh. I did think the movie was a little bit too sci fi overall and I was stunned by something that happened at the end that kind of was different from everything I ever knew to be Superman. Won't spoil it but I was definitely thrown off by it . . . . and the lack of development on it after the fact. Maybe it will be a big part of the sequel? I'm glad that they were finally able to pull off relaunching a character that has always been so difficult to do for some reason. Second part - the epic failure of DC Comics yet again. This could have easily been their Iron Man to launch towards a Justice League and they epically failed. No mention of any of the other players in JL. No mention of Gotham City. Hell - you could have had Ryan Reynolds show up as Hal Jordan and just show some sort of a commitment to it that would have been similar to The Avengers. Who cares if you are following the same model!?! Just do it already. Do something. Now there are no other JL related projects in the pipeline except for a sequel to this that will be years off. This is pretty much one of the biggest ball droppings in movies as far as I'm concerned.
I enjoyed the movie very much and would definitely recommend people checking it out. It was a good reinventing even with the WTF moment towards the end and the failure to connect this to a possible JL timeline.
