Bryan Singer’s Superman has a great start, great characters, and a great climax…and another climax..and another sappy climax…and another false weepy climax..and the final funny one..and at last… the real ‘The End’ - but you never can be sure - so I stuck around to see if the Titles roll - yes, it did - the movie did finally end.

Don’t get me wrong - the final was great entertainment fodder - a perfect flying start to relaunch Superman - but alas, the ending was just a drag..just like I drag here…repeating the same thing over and over again, till I nail it to your head that the ending is long, too long, probably the most weakest point of the whole move is that the THE END didnt come sooner - you got the point didnt you? if not read my lips - the climax drags on… LOL I am out of steam here

Now the postive points - I liked the new guy - he looks like Clark Kent I know from back in the 80’s. The screenplay (written by the XMen team) cleverly layers all his history without the aid of flashbacks. Nice adrenaline packed action sequence (which is a must have in superhero movies) kickstarts the movie. Then some romance, or lost romance, some funny bits and the super villain with a earth shattering plot (?). Frankly I didnt understand what Kevin Spacey’s masterplan was… to build a new land? thats it? why over USA a measly 5million sq.miles? when there is 60 million sq.miles of Pacific Ocean waiting to be built upon. I read somewhere that Superman was rewritten to tone down political references - my guess is that the old screenplay talked about Kryptonite laced Missile Defense Shield over US or something of that nature (to deter Superman entering airspace..of course)

The special effects aren’t that spectacular, in fact it looked lazy - When Superman helps a plane to take off- it would have been cool if he bends his back and throws the plane (like a slingshot) - not just stands there are lazily nudges it. Same with his flying - there is no real drama in his vertical take off and vertical landing, there was no sleek action in his flying - he just looked sleepy and lazy. Some of his feats looked ridiculous, even for Superman.

Casting was perfect - except the villains group of baddies were a disgrace to baddies (Indian Kal Penn included) - they just stood there blinking. Kevin Spacey as usual was magnificent.

First and Second Act was great - 3rd was not.

4/5