Unlike all other babies on a moribund planet "Krypton"- who are engineered by a codex, a superbaby 'Kal-El' is born as a natural birth after centuries. 'Kal-El' is packed and sent off to a distant planet 'Earth' with codex by his parents Jor-El and Lara to save his life and the Krypton race as well. Kal-El's parents are killed by General Zod - a rebel on Krypton for stealing codex and Zod banishes to phantom zone along with his followers.
Years after on earth, a young superboy - Kal-El who is very much like humans is raised as Clark Kent by farmer couple Jonathan and Martha Kent. Jonathan reveals his adopted son that he is an alien and he must hide his super powers as he would not be acceptable in society of Earth. Clark being aware of his super powers wonders about his origin and stuggles with the ultimate question - Why I am here? After his father's death, Clark lives a nomadian lifestyle, working at different places with false names. Clark finds out who he really is when he discovers an ancient Kryptonian scouting ship where he communicates with his original father's ghost through hologram and comes to know about Zod.
In search of codex, Zod and his followers come to earth and ask for 'Kal-El' to surrender and warns the people of earth for destruction in case of disobedience. To save earth, Kal-El surrenders and goes with the Kryptonians. As Zod reveals his plan of converting Earth into Krypton by destroying it completely, Superman morally chooses Earth over his own race and fights against Kryptonians. Initially being mistrusted as an alien, Our superhero eventually wins trust of humans and saves the entire earth from ill wills of Zod to become a "Symbol of Hope".
Its a whole new man of steel we see in the movie. Director Zack Snyder has introduced a sci-fi genre in the superman series while keeping humor and romance at minimum. Movie also tries to bond emotionally with its audience which had been missing in other fantasy movies. Actor Henry Cavill (Kal-El/Clark) is looking utterly handsome as SuperMan and even having less dialogs in movie, his actions does all the talking. The first half of the movie slips back and forth between childhood memories and present of Clark which at times are confusing. Its almost an hour after we see our super boy as Superman and for a big change he is not wearing his underwear over his pants. Few scenes in movie are jaw dropping like when Kal-El tests his powers and when his father's ghost explains him about his native planet. Actions scenes lethargically follows the legacy of drastically falling buildings and explosions which after some time becomes soporific. The sheer amount of destruction that takes place in end is insane. Apart from Henry Cavill, movie is far from perfect. Sadly disappointing, Good in some parts, a total mess in others. We expect better from the Batman team.
THIS MOVIE TOTALLY DISAPPOINTED ME!!!
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