[Tall Guy]

Watched the new Superman over the weekend. I’m not a huge fan of that particular superhero, as his powers are so all-encompassing that he has to be particularly stupid not to be able to overcome all adversaries with a snap of his fingers.

However, this version made him seem both more alien AND more human at the same time, which I liked. The relationships within the newsroom, for instance, seemed more realistic, and Nicholas Hoult made a genuinely nasty and threatening Lex Luther.

I wasn’t much taken with the score. I generally like John Murphy, but wasn’t keen that the unresolved John Williams fanfare was grindingly repeated in some of the action sequences, and when the resolution DID come – “SU-perman” – it just seemed a little contrived.