The planet Krypton is facing a global energy crisis after harvesting resources from the core. A dangerous process is playing out, because the planet is about to implode due to the lack of resources. A council meeting shows us Jor-El criticizing the political authorities.
But then the meeting is interrupted by General Zod, the highest military commander, and he attempts to overthrow the established system and begin anew with fewer "superior" bloodlines. Despite the extremely dangerous natural disaster approaching, Zod takes over with violence.
Before all hope is lost for the people of Krypton, a natural born baby, which has been a rarity for the entire race in centuries, is send off to the planet Earth by Jor-El and is wife in order for their race to start anew somewhere else in the universe.
That baby turns out to be Superman, as many of us knew already according to the comics and previous released films. With Man of Steel, the origin of the character is focused upon, but not so much with his alter ego known as Clark Kent, but more with Kar-El himself.
Such as concealing himself from humanity, dealing with his differences from them, searching for the reason he was stranded alone and finding out who his true parents were. Although the movie can be considered more seriously than previous similar films, eventually Kar-El will grant supernatural powers and for instance fly through any kind of object with minor ease.
As Lois Lane turns out to be the gal that finds out about the alien, the two get more important as the story continues with Zod returning from his broken prison called the Phantom Zone, alongside a few of his insurgents still alive.
He states his motivation for needing the Codex inside Kal-El's body and then insuring that the race of Krypton will survive. His way of doing so however is incredibly violent, as he even proceeds with changing the ecology of Earth by the use of some terrible weapon ship.
The Codex is some kind of plot device where the cells of many babies continue to inhabit, but for some reason, they weren't able to let them grow up I guess. It's a minor confusion, but nothing that stands between the pace of the movie.
Man of Steel's highlights are the incredible fight scenes. For someone as abnormally strong such as Superman, he sure had a hard time against his antagonist here with good reason, for he was a worthy opponent.
Next to those, the soundtrack was in good harmony with the scenes unfolding, and as said before, the scale has been lifted considerably, not to mention all of those scenes where buildings are getting destroyed beautifully by aliens and human technology.
It is a very good reboot movie because it feels more seriously than the other entries and the acting was just fine. Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon were well casted for their roles, Laurence Fishburne however I still wonder if his character will turn more comical.
A sequel towards this will probably happen, as we have yet to see Lex Luthor make a new appearance here. Up until now, I considered Superman movies not that interesting really, but thanks to Man of Steel, I am up for more content to happen from that world.
Rating:7.5
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