2. Theres A Lot Of Fighting Going On But Im The Only One Whos Getting Tired
By the time the film has gone through the umpteenth iteration of the origin story and finally kicked into gear were treated to some pretty spectacular action and fight sequences with Superman and his Kryptonian nemeses shooting off like genuine rockets and punching each other with enough force to be thrust into the next three zip codes. And then the film delivers some more fight scenes. And some more, and some more, and well you get the picture. Its a scale of superhero carnage thats off the charts with buildings being destroyed left and right and although we never see one civilian death in any of this, its hard to avoid flashing back to the last time Americans saw giant skyscrapers systematically crumble to the ground. While I suppose mental call-backs to 9/11 cant be avoided when theres this much destruction of prime real estate, its also a bad sign when those scenes closest cinematic relatives are Michael Bays Transformers films or one of the drawn-out fights between Neo and Agent Smith in the last Matrix film. There were great effects in those films too, but, in the end, they were exhausting, not exhilarating.