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Thought it was pretty good. Still probably only my third or fourth favorite summer movie this year. Cahill was very good and Michael Shannon was tremendous.
I felt like the movie ground to a screeching halt every time Costner came on screen. The twister scene in particular was painful. Just really badly written and Costner's "No, superhuman son who's fast enough to not even be noticed, stay there and let me, your adopted father, rescue the family dog from this oncoming tornado" gesture was one of the dumbest scenes in the whole film.
The Krypton stuff, on the other hand, was great. I've never really felt like it was a real place in previous incarnations, and Snyder knocked this out of the park. There was a real sense of impending dread, and Crowe and Shannon were very very good here.
Clark killing Zod SHOULD have felt like a bigger moment. And if he hadn't been directly responsible for about 40,000 other deaths over the previous 2.5 hours, I might have felt it more.
Overall, I'd say I enjoyed it, but it's still a far cry from any of Nolan's Batman or most of Marvel Studios' offerings. Which I guess is a little like saying "Lawrence of Arabia" was quite good, but it's no "Casablanca."
7/10
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