Man of Steel (2013) ★★★
A film which is less than the sum of its parts. I really like the casting, especially Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner as Kal El's biological and adoptive fathers, respectively, Henry Cavill is very believable as Kal El/Superman, and Michael Shannon is a particularly menacing end powerful Zod.
I've never warmed to Hans Zimmer's overly bombastic score and Zach Snyder's direction, whilst delivering on spectacle, fails to convey any sensitive enjoyment or fun.
Maybe the dark tone is the point, that it's a film which, like Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films, is meant to be taken seriously. In this case, however, I felt the action sequences were too long and without the necessary dramatic tension to make them appropriately engaging.
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