The big chested indestructible one returns in the form of Henry Cavill. Henrys real life dad is Robin Hood, a.k.a. Russell Crowe, and is involved in a dying planet that is being threatened by Michael Shannon. To combat this Russell thinks its a sensible idea to send his new born son off in a rocket to earth. Once on earth baby Henry is found by Robin Hood, a.k.a. Kevin Costner, and his missus who raise him as a human. During this raising Henry lifts heavy things and burns doorknobs. Once grown he keeps himself to himself saving the odd person and then buggering off before anyone realises he is special. Amy Adams is a nosy cow who realises who Henry is and keeps following him and trying to expose his secret and convince Laurence Fishburne that the truth is indeed out there. Whilst all this is going on Michael Shannon turns up again in order to grab Henry and take over the world. Lots of smashing and crashing fighting occurs and we all fear for our lovely planet.
Generally superman is a bit dull as a character, or at least I used to think so. My big problem with him is his apparent invulnerability to everything other than kryptonite. This led to every bad guy who turns up having some form of kryptonite bullet, gas, frying pan in order to slap ol' supes with it and it makes for a boring run of similarity. Then Superman Returns came out and lo and behold kryptonite was involved and even Kevin Spacey could not drag the film from the dreary, dull depths it found itself in. Then superman seemed to get put on the sidelines for other superheroes to take centre stage. To my surprise then I actually really enjoyed this film. To start Henry Cavill is very good as the farm boy goody two shoes Clark Kent/Kal'El and Amy Adams is very good as Lois Lane. The support cast are equally as good and Michael Shannon as General Zod is brilliant. Like all good bad guys he is genuinely bad but there is a reason and a warped logic to what he is doing, this makes him believable and you almost feel for his plight. Being an origin story there will always be a 'how he got there' section and often they can become tedious but in this they choose to use a few short explanatory flashbacks instead and it works very well. You don't feel bored at any point and don't feel like you are being fed a load of filler. Another problem superhero films can have is once the hitting each other sections start which can become CGI heavy nonsense (see Ang Lees Hulk for an example) and again this film does not do that. There is CGI obviously but it doesn't look or feel out of place or over the top and it looks very good. Ultimately when you watch a superhero film you want them to beat the hell out of each other and this delivers in heaps and includes one of the toughest female bad guys you will see for a while. I came out of the cinema with a smile on my face and a warmth in my heart for the big laser eyed Kryptonian. Very good film.
Verdict: 4/5
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