I can’t say I went to see this with great expectations. Cautious optimism would probably be the best way to describe my frame of mind on entering the cinema.
The film starts with the familiar strains of John Williams rousing score and credits in the style of the 1978 Superman film and we’re informed that Superman’s destroyed home planet had been discovered by astronomers and that Sups had left earth in an attempt to find his roots (a bit dumb considering he’d been told by his father, Jor-El, that the planet had been destroyed, but then he never was that bright.)
We get introduced to Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor and find out how he got out of prison then we’re off to Smallville and the main man’s spectacular return to earth. He spends the night with his ‘Ma’ played by Eva Marie Saint (who gets nothing to do) does a spot of reminiscing about how he learned to fly before heading for Metropolis. So far so good…
