Brandon Routh stars as Superman, who after an absence of five years on the remains of his home planet Krypton, returns to mother earth to rescue babies and show us poor human folk how good we could be if greed and lust didn't get in our way. Routh is perfectly cast as Superman mimicking Christopher Reeve's sad acting style. Lois is now married with a son, whom we're led to believe is the caped man's own. Kevin Spacey steals the movie as Lex Luthor, who is up to no good stealing Superman's home crystals with a mind to creating a new land mass in the mid-Atlantic to call his own. It's all done very well with lots of action and Superman and Lois Lane looking sadly and longingly at each other. In the end of this too-long-by-30-minutes film, Superman waxes philosophically like Jesus sprouting some Christian parable about sons and fathers. Gugh! This would have been a great movie had director Bryan Singer done the right thing and ended it as Superman hurtles back to earth, after tossing the offending crystal land mass into space, and crashes like a meteor in the heart of Metropolis' version of Central Park.
My rating 7 out of 10.
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