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Man of Steel (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 276
Fresh: 154 | Rotten: 122

Man of Steel provides exhilarating action and spectacle to overcome its detours into generic blockbuster territory.

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 47
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 22

Man of Steel provides exhilarating action and spectacle to overcome its detours into generic blockbuster territory.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind. -- (C) Warner Bros

Nov 12, 2013

$291.0M

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The movie consists of endless declamation, endless violence.

July 1, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
New Yorker
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There's very little humor or joy in this Superman story.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
Richard Roeper.com
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There's plenty to like in Snyder's hectic, rowdy film. But by the time we reach the bludgeoning excesses of the last half-hour it's hard to shake the sense that this was an opportunity at least partially missed.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: The Atlantic
The Atlantic
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Cavill broods handsomely as Superman, but this reboot skimps on fun and romance.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Newsday
Newsday
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The movie delivers on the promise of its title and then some.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Man of Steel packs quite a wallop. A few too many wallops, as it turns out.

June 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Detroit News
Detroit News
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No fun costume change in a phone booth, no wowing humans with his powers and no repartee with reporter Lois Lane.

September 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Us Weekly
Us Weekly

A solid film, but a solid Superman?

September 18, 2013 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Snyder delivers the type of undeniable, overwhelming charge with which he's become Sny-nonymous, and his affinity for spectacle strongly courses throughout.

September 13, 2013 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

The screenplay by David S. Goyer is like an arm wrestling match between brain and muscle, and when one takes charge the other falls out of line.

August 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org
Cinemaphile.org

Uma boa releitura do personagem. Se era necessária, porém, é outra história.

July 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Cinema em Cena

The worst Superman movie since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace...

July 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

MAN OF STEEL is the Superman film us Supernerds have all been hoping for. It's raw, it's gritty, and it's one of the most realistic comic book films ever made.

July 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Gordon and the Whale
Gordon and the Whale

Man Of Steel plunges headfirst into a loud, breathless science-fiction slugfest, offering much spectacle but little wonder.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: The Dissolve
The Dissolve

Super-duper-overStatement. A cataclysm-caravan of speeches, doomed and desolate landscapes, proclamations of glorious destiny or rebirth, and sprawling, stone-faced seriousness. Can't save itself from self-suffocating grandiosity.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

A poster child of what blockbuster films have become.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Dial M For Movies
Dial M For Movies

For two-thirds of the running time, the film is grandly entertaining.... But then, as we get into the climactic battles, the level of wanton destruction becomes excessive, even tacky.

July 10, 2013 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

The battles between Superman and the evil Kryptonians set a new standard for on-screen urban destruction, but they also give us pause: Aren't hundreds, even thousands being killed in the riveting, spectacular smashing of skyscraper after skyscraper?

July 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Man Of Steel suffers most in its final hour where in degenerates into a seen-it-all-before, CGI-laden action fest.

July 1, 2013 Full Review Source: ABC Radio Brisbane
ABC Radio Brisbane

Man of Steel indirectly tackles the conundrum of how a mankind engrained in monolithic religion greets the concrete proof of a mythological figure. Is it possible for an alien from Krypton to reside alongside an unquestioning faith in Christ?

July 1, 2013 Full Review Source: New York Theatre Wire

Superman's grand, mythic nature is both his greatest strength as a character and his fatal weakness. Man of Steel can't quite overcome this, but it's a heck of a lot of fun watching it try.

June 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Flicks.co.nz
Flicks.co.nz

While it gives you your fix, it doesn't put Superman back on top of our cinematic superheroes.

June 29, 2013 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review
The Scorecard Review

Although the CGI takes over far too many times, the personality and inner torment of the 'Man of Steel' win out over the special effects.

June 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Though fans might miss the levity that made Richard Donner's classic 1978 film Superman: The Movie such a game-changing joy, the thing that really sells this respectful reboot is the dramatic conviction underlying all the mega-scale mayhem.

June 28, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

With a gray and gritty palette and interesting structure, offers its share of thrills but may be too somber overall to appease the typical summer blockbuster fan.

June 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Audience Reviews for Man of Steel

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September 4, 2013
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It may be rough around the edges, but the latest to star the Man of Tomorrow provides a successful and refreshing reboot to a franchise that was in desperate need of it. The script by David S. Goyer and Christopehr Nolan manages to take an all-too familiar story (the script is a combination of the first two Donner Superman movies) and tell it with emotional depth, subtle humor, and with enough variables changed around that prevents it from feeling like a banal retread. Stylistically, aesthetically, tonally, and story wise; this is a completely different animal from all the other Superman flicks that came before.

Zack Snyder's contributions as director should not be under-stated. Love him or hate him, the '300' director has plenty of varying genre film experience (Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, Legend of the Guardians) and really knows how to make action look gorgeous. 'Man of Steel' is by far Snyder's most beautiful-looking film to date; shining with a Terence Malick-type of art-house quality, especially in Clark Kent's flashbacks to his awkward younger years trying to suppress his powers. Superman's first flight sequence that literally takes him around the world resonates with the same magical wonder as the Peter Pan-esque flight from the 1978 original. Snyder also proves to be the perfect choice to direct the epic-scale visceral action that was severely lacking in the 2006 'Superman Returns'. The biggest highlight comes in the form of Superman fighting against two of General Zod's soldiers in the middle of Smallville. We've seen Superman fight super-humans before in 'Superman II' but never on this big of a scale, with the ensuing jaw-dropping destruction and bone crunching punches making it one of the best action sequences of the year. And don't worry; no slow motion is present for those who hated that particular aesthetic of Snyder's work. The final battle with Superman and General Zod echoes the colossal anime-style fights that almost makes one feel like they are watching a live-action 'Dragon Ball Z' battle brought to vivid life.

Henry Cavill steps into the cape as the Man of Steel himself and he is an absolute revelation in the part. Cavill does not have much dialogue but nonetheless does a great job in balancing raw charm and unflinching sincerity while also convincingly selling an younger more uncertain Clark Kent who is just beginning to realize his calling as a superhero and a symbol for the young human race to strive for. Amy Adams is delightful as Lois Lane and it is great to see her become a more active character in the plot (aside from being the damsel in distress). There is also a delightful twist in the Lois and Clark dynamic that 'Superman II' once teased at but never followed through on. Michael Shannon's hammtastic performance as a more sympathetic but still ruthless General Zod proves once again why Shannon is one of the best character actors working in Hollywood today.

While the film can have mediocre dialogue and the pacing of the second-half is admittedly hindered it's back-to-back obligatory spectacle dumps (although not nearly as bad as it was in 'Star Trek Into Darkness'), there is just too much good stuff to pass up. Hopefully this film will be the first brave step in a rejuvenated Superman franchise. It may not be groundbreaking in the superhero genre it represents, but 'Man of Steel' still delivers a fun rush of excitement and visual eye-candy.
July 24, 2011
Christopher Heim

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    1. General Swanwick: Are you effing stupid?!
    2. Clark Kent/Kal-El: One of your surveillance drones.
    3. General Swanwick: That's a $12 million piece of hardware!
    4. Clark Kent/Kal-El: It was. I know you're trying to find out where I hang my cape. You won't.
    5. General Swanwick: Then I'll ask the obvious question: How do we know you won't one day act against America's interests.
    6. Clark Kent/Kal-El: I grew up in Kansas, General. It's about as American as it gets. Look, I'm here to help. But it has to be on my own terms. And you have to convince Washington of that.
    7. General Swanwick: Even if I were willing to try, what makes you think they'd listen?
    8. Clark Kent/Kal-El: I don't know, General. I guess I'll just have to trust you.
    – Submitted by Eric G (41 days ago)
    1. General Zod: I was bred to be a warrior, Kal. Trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train? On a farm?
    – Submitted by Eric G (2 months ago)
    1. Colonel Hardy: This man is not our enemy!
    2. Clark Kent/Kal-El: Thank you general.
    – Submitted by James J (2 months ago)
    1. Clark Kent/Kal-El: You were trying to find out where I hang the cape, don't worry you won't.
    – Submitted by James J (2 months ago)
    1. Clark Kent/Kal-El: I don't know general I guess I'll just have to trust you.
    – Submitted by James J (2 months ago)
    1. General Zod: Where is the Codex?
    2. Martha Kent: Go to hell!
    – Submitted by joseph j (2 months ago)
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