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Originally Posted by Setsuna

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You weren't going to like this movie from the outset I see. What you're saying makes no sense. Why risk that "Hey why don't I fly away and have them chase me when they know my weakness to save humanity? Yeah they'll follow me for sure. That's a great idea Kal! Good job me!"

Also they were military and aren't stupid. They would realize what he's doing even if he subtly tried to move from the city a mile at a time. This isn't some broken AI from a video game, these are military elite. Don't be dense.

Wait...there's more. The entire might of the world's military? SERIOUSLY? Like they could all scramble such a force in minutes. WTF is wrong with you? Also he overcame his weakness through great will to be able to stand and still have the power to fly fast enough to pierce that World Engine. IIRC he was at bottom of that light where it had terraformed Earth the most into Krypton. What he did there was something the remaining Kryptonians and Zod could never do. Kal-El was born naturally with the ability to do and be anything and his will wasn't isolated to one purpose. And people from Earth trying to do what they can to save it? UNHEARD OF! They all need to be screaming like the Japanese do when Godzilla comes to town. Like idiots. You wanted this to be a complete domination by Superman and would make this yet another stinker in a long list of such films. Stick to Marvel please.

I was making excuses for this movie for the first hour before I just couldn't anymore. No one wanted this movie to be great any more than I did. That fact is admittedly why I'm so hard on it. I'm pissed because I don't think it would be that hard to make an extremely compelling modern Superman movie, but WB is so bad at handling it's properties (Dark Knight trilogy notwithstanding), I may never see one. What I wanted was for this to do for Superman what Batman Begins did for Batman. It didn't. Not even close.

Spoiler!

You think it would take more time to launch an all out offensive on a specific point than to rig a delivery system for an alien space shuttle? OK. I only brought that up as something that didn't make much sense to me in the movie. It was not a deal breaker. The deal breaker was the at times laughable screenplay and ham-fisted direction that robbed the film of any emotional resonance.