Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Sameer Callahan
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Smoreni Zmaj
Visual effects do not lag behind Marvel's, but unlike Marvel, DC provides something more than an empty action. Besides the default fight of good and evil, "Superman" also brings a deep human drama, a struggle within, between what we want with all our heart and what we know is right. Frankly, I do not like Brandon Routh in leading role. Although I can not give objective criticism of his performance, subjectively he simply doesn't leave impression of Superman. He seem more like pussy than superhero, but it's probably just me. On the other hand, Kate Bosworth is so cute that I am not able to objectively evaluate her acting, and Kevin Spacey is perfect Lex Lutor, incomparably better than Hackman.8,5/10I wonder if introductory monologue sounds somewhat biblical to anyone else, as if trying to compare Superman to Jesus:"Even though you've been raised as a human being, you are not one of them. They can be a great people. They wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son."
Alan Smithee Esq.
An under appreciated and often over looked comic book super hero movie. Superman's track record when it comes to films is all over the place, and this flick seems to get forgotten in a time where Superman is now dead after killing countless people in epic battles with General Zod, facing off against Batman, then teaming together because their mother's are both named Martha and finally sacrificing himself to kill Doomsday. And before all that nonsense Christopher Reeve was best known as the man of steel who started off the franchise strong with it's first two films by Richard Donner and then got ridiculous with the second two. In hindsight this a breath of fresh air for the Christ-like alien from krypton. Sure this movie has it's problems but it's a very interesting take on Superman. It makes the odd decision of being a sequel to a couple movies made decades earlier and ignoring the last two Superman movies that were released. But it works and it works well. Although it may be lacking in the action department it has some great ideas like Supes being a pseudo-stalker of Lois Lane and fathering a child with her. But Singer's direction and a stand out performance by Kevin Stacey as Lex Luthor (revisiting this movie is a great way to forget about Jessie Eisenberg and his jar of urine) make this one of the better Superman films.
poeticanarquica
I do not want to extend myself in criticize a movie that is clearly not the best movie of Superman, but I think it's unfair to say it's a bad movie. I saw after "man of steel" and it was just terrible. I mean, it's M.O.S a movie about Superman? No. Just think about this points:1. It was a great responsibility to make a movie that would continue with the Superman saga, with no other hero or D.C character, and make it tasteful. Synger does it, but with the spirit of a movie that would have worked in the 80's, not now2. It has the elements of Superman, is luminous, optimistic, and metropolis in the end wants his hero back. It's not a "dramatic alien soap opera"like in Snyder movie, although his romantic spirit might have been much better.3. The plane scene makes it worth seeing the movie and is one of the best scenes ever made about Superman.
Leofwine_draca
Bryan Singer's much-heralded continuation of the SUPERMAN series turns out to be a vacuous, poorly-paced nonentity of a movie that adds absolutely nothing new to the genre – aside from some nifty, state-of-the-art special effects – while rehashing lots of genre clichés and staples and some poorly-contrived laughs at the same time. For some reason, Singer decided to pad out an hour and a half movie with an extra hour of people standing around talking, lots of incident surrounding the diabolical Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane – making the viewer question why anybody would love her character – and plenty more, well, routine stuff. I'm a fan of comic book adaptations now, but Singer fumbles the ball completely, preferring to concentrate on plot rather than action – pretty much the opposite of the tightly-woven and utterly entertaining SPIDER-MAN flicks.Things begin on a particularly bad footing, and people who are unfamiliar with the Superman story will find themselves scratching their heads in confusion. An idiotic scene of a boyish Clark Kent jumping high into the air through a cornfield brings back unfavourable memories of HULK and it's not until an admittedly entertaining run-in with a jumbo jet that the film really begins to move. However, the comic-book hero staple – fighting bad guys and crims – is almost non-existent. The film's best moment, in which Superman faces a thug with a Gatling gun – the biggest I've seen on film – seems to be over far too fast and there's not a great deal else in the film in the same spirit.Brandon Routh is perfectly able in the role of the titular hero, and he's nothing to complain about. While he's overshadowed by the late Christopher Reeve, he proves to be a dashing hero for the millennium. Not so the awful Bosworth, whose blandness sucks life from the movie. James Marsden – coming over from his role as Cyclops in Singer's X-MEN films – is equally wooden as a major supporting character, while Frank Langella must be reminiscing over his youthful roles of the 1970s as he's given nothing to work with here. Kevin Spacey lifts the movie as the ultra-villain, Lex Luthor, but he's too 'nice' and charming for the part; you end up sympathising with him when you really shouldn't be. Parker Posey is as awful here as she was in BLADE III.The film progresses in a run-of-the-mill fashion, with only a couple of entertaining moments. The first sees Superman losing his strength – darn that Kryptonite – and taking a vicious beating at the hands of Luthor's thugs. This scene feels like it belongs in a different movie. The second is the admittedly spectacular finale, in which Superman levitates a whole continent and throws it into space. While the special effects are superb, the characterisation and plot isn't, and as a result you can't get worked up or excited about any of this stuff. Style over substance is the best way to describe this disappointing wannabe-epic.
