The Movie Review By Andy McKinney Man of Steel Man of Steel will be an enormous box office success. It has already made history as the best June opening weekend in movie history. The $225 budgeted PG-13 blockbuster has brought in a staggering $197 worldwide in the Thursday through Sunday opening. With the innovative director Zack Snyder running things, the man who gave us the interesting, entertaining and unusual “Watchman” and “300” we have a director that can be counted on to give us something special. In Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, the men who also co-wrote all three of the outstanding Dark Knight films, we also have a writing team that is capable of working at the highest possible level. Nolan also produced Man of Steel. The acting from a team of very well practiced, popular and impressive actors includes Russell Crow as Superman’s biological father and Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as the Kents, his Earth parents. All three turn in touching performances, particularly Costner as the protective father. Laurence Fishburne appears as the hard boiled newspaper editor Perry White. And Amy Adams, just off her great and complicated role in Trouble with the Curve is the best Lois Lane ever. Only Superman himself, Henry Cavill, showed little acting ability. To be fair, his has the look and especially the physique of a Superman but he was mostly asked by his director to look good and frown. He had no problem with either chore, but it isn’t acting. So what happened? This movie will be seen by millions across the globe. The cast and talent behind scenes are the very best around. Why did this prodigious effort produce only a mediocre three saw blade film? Working against their history, I think the genius behind the film simply sold out. They knew that they had a chance to make a billion dollar film and they took it. And they will no doubt be vindicated on that basis. But what a shame. They could have just as easily have made something like the three Dark Knight films, films that will be seen and studied for generations. Man of Steel will be studied only by accountants. I won’t do a spoiler but let us say that the brilliant writing team let in a huge clunker that was so obvious and so important as to be laughable when it popped up. And the ultimate battle between Superman and his Krypton born super opponent went on and on and on and on… you get the idea. The film was two hours and 23 minutes long. There was plenty of room to snip out a few minutes of repetitious slugging between two super heroes who cannot be harmed. This wasn’t a bad movie but I was hoping for amazing.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:18:39 +0000
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