MAN OF STEEL: lethargically repetitive, overtly stretched and too loud to enjoy!

Superman is not human. Superman is rather an alien […who looks very much human]. Superman has a difficult childhood and a haunting past to deal with. But superman is superman. Do any of these sentences create some kind of excitement to you? Do you feel any tingle in your bones while reading this out? Same goes with the latest Chris Nolan-Zack Snyder’s collaborative effort ‘MAN OF STEEL’. It only is a resurrection of what we all have seen in past but that doesn't keep you away from expecting freshness in the approach and some astuteness while penning it down again, and that’s where it falls badly to deliver.

Film takes its own time to establish the tug of war between the parents to our superman and the big baddie, far away from our galaxy in another planet called Krypton and way back when superman was merely a child with possibilities and hope to many. Parents get killed but not before transporting the child to a much safer and convenient planet earth. The ‘naturally born in centuries’ child is now in hands of much sorted foster parents and just in time, 20 years later when the child manages to learn how to cover up his scary powers; the big baddie comes back with deadlier plans for both the planets. Will our man with possibilities do the needful? Why not, he’s superman after all.

In trying to balance the emotional quotient and the thrilling action, the film falls measurably on both fronts. The pace is sometimes dead to feel any high. Intelligence in the writing is a complete miss, and what could really be the surprising element, even action is lethargically repetitive, overtly stretched and too loud to enjoy. If I really had to pick high-points in those 2 hours 23 min long duration, it would be one where Clark interacts with his foster mother, second when he first discovers his super-powers and goes for a test in details and rest being some romantic frames with Amy Adams and a couple of fights in the finale.

At last, it only looks a show reel [or rather a show-off] to experiment how much we can create on those heavily potent VFX machines. Too much of graphic content, long excessive action sequences, lack of freshness and loose editing kills the purpose to rekindle the joy of watching superman acting super human. Had it not been the love for him, I would have gone for short & quick naps in between. [2.5/5]