I just watched the Man of Steel. I have no idea why reviews are so mediocre.

[Fei-Hung]

Hated the film and contemplated walking out of it a few times. I knew this was going to happen due to influences probably from Christopher Nolan - making everything dark, depressing and apocalyptic.

Superman had zero personality. He just seemed to float through the film like a fart with no personality.

Jor-El's uploaded guide presence thing was equally 2 dimensional.

Superman is meant to be super intelligent and his father was supposed to have educated him on earth (being a super scientist himself an all), but here Superman was a bit on the dumb side.

So much stuff made no sense whatsoever, like:

1) Why is Superman such a boring fart? Where did his personality go?
2) Every Tom Dick and Harry from his past knows who Superman is due to his heroics before he got his disguise and him then going on national TV to give himself up etc
3) Superman would never have fought them on earth due to the large number of casualties and damage done to the city. Even in the original Superman film, he took them away from the city. Here, Superman was just as destructive and cavalier as the villain.
4) The end made no sense whatsoever. Superman got stronger as the Kryptonian gravity got stronger. That shit is illogical. When he was at the center of that device, he should have been crippled and completely drained. How the hell he broke all the laws of physics from any given planet is damn right miraculous. They should have just added a flying Unicorn with a rainbow shooting out of its rear end!

Above everything else, there was no depth to the character or characters, the entire film was just one big giant glorified DragonBall Z fight scene, barely any story worth remembering, and the film just lingered on. There was no urgency or climax or build up, it all just felt like a weird state of dream like when you are suffering from sleep depression.

Considering what this film could have been, this was very disappointing. Christopher Nolan's approach worked to an extent for Batman since Batman is set in a dark and depressing world (made colourful by the over the top caricature like villains) and the approach fits it, but Man of Steel has pretty much butchered anything Superman couldh have been. There goes any hope for a decent JLA film -_-