>>212781776 (OP)
It was just painfully okay, like everything Gunn does. The jokes never landed even once. Every dialogue left me asking "why?" Not because it's campy, Raimi did campy just fine because it was played straight. Even other MCUshit is better if only because it plays it all straight. This shit was bad because it feels like it's trying to lampshade itself the entire time. Nobody acted well, except sometimes Hoult, but I blame the script and direction more than the actors. The best moment of the film involved his reaction to thinking he finally won. Clark sucked. Kents were non-entities. Too much focus on the other heroes, I swear Terrific got as much screentime as Superman himself. I don't mind him getting beat up that much, but he was basically a wet fart. He doesn't do anything super except save a squirrel, and ask the people whose building got torched if they were okay. If they wanted a super feat, maybe he should've used his ice breath to stop the flames, or something, actively saving them instead of asking afterward. So much of the film felt unnecessary and then it was over.
I won't even go into the Boravia subplot, it was just fucking awful. The movie is supposed to be about Kal El finding himself and he does it by monologuing to Lex at the end, in the corniest way possible. Not comic book corny, the dialogue and delivery were straight garbage. It felt like a YouTube fan film. This shit is a multimillion dollar production, but it comes across as amateur all around. The fisheye lens shit is fucking terrible and makes everyone look objectively stupid, it's not cool or unique. The end concept is okay, Superman turning on his real parents...but it's like 20 seconds of "identity crisis solved" in a neat little bow when we don't actually feel that struggle in the film at all.
Lois is a lecturing harpy bitch. The Justice Gang is poorly cast. Banging out the Donner theme when the onscreen feats are mid is lame.
5/10 at best.
