Few
films carry expectations mounted up to the sky, the kind of crew it carries,
previous works done by the those film makers everything comes into count for
the viewer. Sometimes it falls on the positive side by throttling the audience
expectations about the film; sometimes it falls on the darker side when it fails to catch
up to the levels set up in the petty brains of people watching them. Man of
Steel comes into the second category I am speaking about. Though stalwarts like
David.S.Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Zack Synder are on the making end of the
movie, they couldn't create the necessary magic on the viewer’s mind from their
most anticipated work on the superhero SUPER MAN: MAN OF STEEL.
The
movie starts off with some unrealistic and uber sci-fi visuals that falls naive
in developing the relevant emotions in the viewer’s mind, everything sets back
to normal after the story shifts to the planet earth from the inconvenient
planet to watch, named krypton. The makers terribly failed in creating the
effective visuals that are amiable to the 3d version. Thanks to the musician
Zimmer for his boisterous music for the first few minutes, even this drains off
eventually with mere repetition.
Coming
to the script, the story unveils with random non-linear fashion for the first
few minutes, switching between present and past which reminds us of the typical
Nolan’s writing. As the director slides back and forth in narration with
umpteen flash back snippets, he somehow stays back in the subplots and loses
his grip in the main plot which ultimately falls flat. You never find a
character evolving in the entire story, not even superman. All of a sudden he
appears with a suit, whose designer is never known (LOL). The only
scenes that make some sense are in the subplots that reveal the child
hood of superman. There are few scenes that generate some genuine laughs but it
gets unnoticed on a whole. The story appears to be written with mere adrenaline
rush rather than with passion and honesty to introduce the neo superman to the
people who are quenching for the super hero genre in the recent times. Or it
might be a strategic corporate attempt by DC and Warner to defend against the Marvel’s wave of fortune in making the recent super-hero blockbusters. Whatever
may be the reasons in actual sense, the film suffers from poor treatment in all
of its segments.
Sometimes
you need not have a great story or a twisting, intriguing screenplay with you
but still you can make a decent attempt that is worth appreciating by a
grandeur presentation on the silver canvas. The example that articulates the
above line is Cameron’s Avatar. Sadly Man of Steel falls negative even in this
regard. The visuals are hazy, confusing and irritating in the 3d version. It
gives a dozing sensation for our eyes watching such meaningless, noisy and high
octane destruction. We seriously feel that the director suffers from the “Micheal
Bay”-ian effect when it comes to destruction. No sooner we realize that the
music keeps on repeating in the loop. Even Zimmer loses his usp in building
effective BGM.
Coming
to the actors, everything stands just normal. There is no character that we
carry with us leaving the theater; instead we try to come out of the trauma of
watching a terribly misfired action drama with the terrible 3D effect. Even the
superman character that is played by Henry Cavil loses its charm with poor
writing and dreadful depiction of the neo-version of the super hero. The cast might have had
a cake walk in enacting the stuff as nothing exciting was written for their roles.
After all, the most awaited
venture of the year “Man of Steel” fails to impress our hearts amidst huge
expectations on its cast and crew. On a whole it’s just another Hollywood flick
which is stuffed with excess action and a solidly uncooked script.
Verdict:
Two stars for the super annoying hero.
Ps:
Do go with a “STEEL” heart, else you might be disheartened
terribly.
reviewed by SRIHARSHA VELAMAKANNI
