Read Emily Waddell’s review of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel
"Like most of the new batch of superhero films Man of Steel attempts to shy away from the conventions of previous Superman films."
Zack Synder’s Man of Steel comes to us after a break from superhero films. It’s been a few months since we had the summer of comic books with suits made of iron and lycra rubbed in our collective faces. Superman has been a tricky film to make, we’ve had a few campy fun filled romps with the Man of Steel with no one being able to secure a level of respectability to the ultimate superhero.
Man of Steel doesn’t ease you into an origin story like it’s predecessors. Within the first five minutes Krypton, Superman’s home planet, is collapsing in on itself through bad governing and mismanagement of its resources. Scientist and new father Jor-El, played by Russell Crowe doing his Gladiator accent, rails against the leaders of Krypton for their bad judgment and proposes his new plan of saving his race. Military leader General Zod, played by an unnerving Micheal Shannon, decides that a coup of the government through shooting them is a much better plan. Jor-El and his wife Lara (Ayelet Zurer) launch baby Kal-El, Superman’s real name, into space and the rest is history as we are told the rest of the renamed Clark Kent’s history through flashbacks and narration...
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