OP here
Back from the cinema, can finally post the picture I took before the movie started
I should preface my review by saying that I have no idea what's up with the current DC universe continuity, didn't watch anything DC since the dark knight trinity so I basically came in clean
If I have to sum up the film in one word: American. So very American.
>SFX wank (they were good I must say)
>literal sitcom humor, only missing the prerecorded laughter as a queue "haha look at the dog doing stupid stuff so funny" "lmao niggerman saying niggerman stuff haha" "lolol the obsessive girl is so crazy"
>everything just somehow works out without explanation at the end
I guess I can see why people are saying it's "good" if we're talking in a "return to roots" kind of way, just pure comic capeman energy, feels like something an audience back in the 80s would have legitimately enjoyed. It manages to feel a like a fresh, honest superhero film on the specific backdrop of all the literal dogshit they've been putting out lately.
What makes me conflicted is how the film sort of set up to become something way darker (superman facing the consequences of just doing "good" things all willy nilly) with the villains being an actual legit threat and having superman against the ropes for most of the film, yet the sitcom comedy and the comic writer deus ex machina kinda nipped that in the bud.
Like, shit, I was legitimately shocked when Lex fucking shot falafel man dead right in front of superman, the scene did a great job at showing the villains meant business, but the rest of the film sort of goes back to the more superficial sitcom mood with niggerman cracking jokes so it feels like wasted potential to make something that really questions what heroism means.
Overall it's ok, if you take it for what it is then you can't really say it's a bad film, but I feel like it could have been so much more.