I don't think the film got the balance it needed for that amount of action to work at the end. I can accept certain things for a movie like the Avengers because it never really took itself seriously and had more than a handful of action sequences. With Man of Steel- the last fight scenes did everything I wanted them to do in an action movie but, for a movie that spent so much time rooting itself in reality and trying to be emotional and never had any action before that part- that level of destruction was over the top - very cartoonish- which again was okay for the Avengers, because it wasn't trying to be dramatic. And in the Avengers not only do they show them saving civilians, they also acknowledged the hundreds of thousands killed by the aliens- whereas in MOS none of that was addressed- in fact Superman caused a lot of the destruction himself.
The film also had a ton of problems with pacing, bad dialogue, forced romance and being too long.
And I still enjoyed it, but if they expect to keep the tone as dark as it was for this film- they better address the hundreds of thousands - possibly millions killed by Zod and superman's recklessness. It would make zero sense for Metropolis to accept him after all that.
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