You really have understood what MoS tell! Happy to see that I'm not the only one that share this feeling! :)

Actually if an AI is connected to a ship don't people think that he is connected to all the sensors on the ship so being able to tell where people are wouldn't be that hard.

Supermans recklessness is not really the issue. The movie is just too excessive with the damage that is done to metropolis. Its just disaster porn at its worst.

I'm completely fine with Superman punching people into buildings and doing millions in property damage, but usually even in the cartoons, you don't get the sense that much collateral damage is being done. Even in Avengers, a couple buildings got smashed up, but you could walk away from that movie believing that the bodycount was relatively low. In MoS, there is noway that 1000's of people didn't die. Thats just depressing.

One thing that could have remedied this is if we would have seen atleast a couple scenes of superman actually... you know... being a superhero. Save a couple people from falling debris, rescue some people from falling off a building... etc. We never got that, all superman did was punch people in the face.

He saved the soldiers in the helicopter from Faora.

The Terra forming machine is what did the most damage. Not Superman fighting. Even the US Army did some damge.

All the destruction could have been avoided if Superman had just gone back the the ship to talk to Jor-El after Zod gave the earth 24 hours, then Jor-El could have told him how to trap them with the phantom drive.

But instead he just talks to some random priest, never talks to Jor-El and lets potentially thousands of people die because the plot demanded it.

"Superman Returns had no action"

"OMG MAN OF STEEL TOO MUCH ACTION!"

My biggest problem with the Superman is the fact that be wasn't using his powers to become rich as some sort of athlete. Totally unrealistic.

Yeah, he saved them by punching Faora in the face. When I talk about saving I mean actually helping out people without violence like Superman has often been known to do in the past.

I agree that the Terra Forming machine did most of the damage... and thats my complaint. The writers shouldn't have had such a destructive force in this first movie. There is  a disconnect because after all the ridiculous amounts of property damage and lives lost, the movie trys to end on this upbeat happy note, and it just feels wrong. The movie would have actually been better off and more believable if there was no terraforming machine or atleast if they toned down its destructive force a little.

That doesn't explain that the AI would not in which direction the bad guy would punch.

That would explain why they didn't even bother questioning her.

Being integrated with the ship doesn't explain how he would know where the bad guy would punch before he even started throwing the punch.

It's not nitpicking - the movie in itself is bad even if you disregard the lazy plot. I guess the Transformer crowd are the ones who liked it because of the action. The whole scene with the tornado and kevin costner was cringeworthy. And can we get over the bullied-as-a-kid superhero now? It's been done to death.