So, this is my first movie review. Man of Steel is an attempt to revamp the Superman franchise by...well...retelling his origin story.
STORY
As mentioned this one is a remake. So anyway, Kal-El is sent to earth by is father (Jor-El) and his mother before the planet of Krypton blows up. Shortly after he departs, a corrupt Kryptonian general named Zod kills Jor-El. As he is sentenced, Zod vows that he will find Kal-El. Shortly after this, the planet kabooms. Fastfoward
Kal-El crashes and is raised in Kansas, and as a youth is raised by Johnathan & Martha Kent. Growing up as Clark Kent, he slowly discovers his powers and struggles with hiding them.
Fastforward
Kal-El then tracks down what he believes to be a Kryptonian ship buried in a glacier.
After sneaking to the ship, he encounters a woman and saves her, presumeing he was followed.
Change Perspective
Photo-Journalist, Lois Lane, encountered him at a military base that she was covering a story. Begins tracking this mysterious, "Superhuman" by tracing him back to his origins.
Rewind
We now see a montage of Clark growing up...again.
Fastfoward
Now Clark has discovered his origins from Krypton, and meet's a Holographic version of his father. Armed with sheer strength and...Formal Kryptonian dress, he sets home to find that same pesky lady with the camera, from here, there is about 1 hour and 45 minutes chock-full of ACTION!
CONTENT
This is an action film, and there's alot of violence. Buildings get destroyed, Smallville is decimated, and the death toll while unmentioned, would be huge just from collateral damage. Superman has to brake his moral code to save innocent civillians(I was dissapointed with this).
There is a good amount of language, but not as much as Batman: Arkham Asylum.
On a positive note Clark does go to a church, to ask a priest what he should do in a
grave situation.
Also in this adaption, He has good, old fashioned values like Captain America does in his films.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
One of the Major themes I picked up on, was that everyone CAN choose their destiny. What I mean by this, is that in the film, all Kryptonian children are genetically engineered beings, and all are created with a certain duty to maintain in society. Kal-El is the first natural birth on Krypton in hundreds of years, and being free of gentic enginering, he can choose his own path. In life, God creates us with the ability to think, and decide what we are going to do with our lives, and this film creates a reminder that if we were not able to decide things such as our destiny, we would not make it far in society.
CONCLUSION
This is a very fun action film, with some flaws, but it's one heck of a ride. I really enjoyed Man of Steel, and hope that you will enjoy it too as soars to DVD November 12th.
8 out of 10
DETAILS
Top Billed Cast
Henry Cavill- Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman
Amy Adams- Lois Lane
Michael Shannon- General Zod
Russel Crowe- Jor-El
Kevin Kostner- Johnathan Kent
Diane Lane- Martha Kent
Lawrence Fishburne- Perry White
Directed by- Zack Snyder
Produced by- Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas
Deborah Snyder
Story by- Christopher Nolan
David S. Goyer
Score by- Hans Zimmer
Rated- PG-13
Release- June, 2013/ DVD-November 12th 2013
