Review – Man of Steel

As I watched the latest reboot of a long-familiar story, I found myself distracted by comparisons between this outing and the Christopher Reeve version from 1978. The script and visuals of the 21st century go-around are a great deal more sophisticated, quite a departure from the moral-ambiguity-free Superman of yore. I was surprised that a Zack Snyder production sported plot twists worthy of J.J. Abrams, though overall the movie stuck close enough to genre conventions to pass as a standard action movie. Mildly amusing