Man of Steel

Name: Man of Steel
Director: Zack Snyder
Released: 2013

Zack Snyder

2013

2.00

Synopsis

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

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Henry CavillClark Kent / Superman / Kal-El
Amy AdamsLois Lane
Michael ShannonGeneral Zod
Diane LaneMartha Kent
Russell CroweJor-El
Kevin CostnerJonathan Kent
Laurence FishburnePerry White
Christopher MeloniColonel Nathan Hardy
Antje TraueFaora-Ul
Harry LennixGeneral Calvin Swanwick

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87
Film.com
If the word “epic” has lost its meaning in the throes of recent summers, Man of Steel forcefully redefines it.
80
Total Film
A bracing attempt to bring the legend back into contention that successfully separates itself from other Super-movies but misses some of their warmth and charm. But given the craft and class, this could be the start of something special
80
Empire
It aches for more depth and warmth and humour, but this is spectacular sci-fi — huge, operatic, melodramatic, impressive. It feels the right Superman origin story for our era, and teases what would be a welcome new superfranchise.
80
Time Out London
Feels both modern and traditional – a halfway house between the broodier Nolan way of shaking things up and the louder, bone-crunching style that director Zack Snyder established with films such as ‘300’ and ‘Sucker Punch’. Man of Steel is punchy, engaging and fun, even if it slips into a final 45 minutes of explosions and fights during which reason starts to vanish and the science gets muddy.
75
The Playlist
Goyer and Nolan have crafted in Man of Steel a taut, exploratory vision, and Snyder's later inheritance of the material indeed proves his best work since “Dawn of the Dead.”
70
The Hollywood Reporter
As much spectacle and action — minute-by-minute, frame-by-frame — as any movie anyone could think of. Zack Snyder’s huge, backstory-heavy extravaganza is a rehab job that perhaps didn’t cry out to be done but proves so overwhelmingly insistent in its size and strength that it’s hard not to give in.
60
The Guardian
The whole film ends up feeling weighed down: though Man of Steel bounds from one epic setpiece to another, you're left with the nagging feeling that you just can't work out what the central twosome see in each other. And for Superman and Lois Lane, that's hardly ideal.
60
Village Voice
It’s a relief just to watch the actors act once in a while, and thankfully, Snyder is astute enough to punch some breathing holes in this steel-clad colossus.

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