The son of an alien leader whose planet was destroyed is sent to Earth, where he is raised as an honest little American bumpkin. As a teenager, Clark sees his body change, a firepower animate him and doubts assail him as to his true identity. Former clipper, revealed by the bloody peplum “300”, Zack Snyder is a disconcerting filmmaker whose certain clumsiness competes with an equally indisputable virtuosity. In this umpteenth interpretation of the Superman myth, it is fortunately his virtuosity that takes over.
Spent a painful quarter of an hour on the disintegration of the planet Krypton (in mode heroic fantasy chubby), the film finds its rhythm and its narrative architecture: that of an abundant soap opera in which the spectator likes to get lost, between melancholy flashbacks (learning the hero, acceptance of his destiny), recreational pleasure of aerobatics and pure action that the staging regulates to perfection – notably the power that emanates from the (super)man, a real subject of cinema rarely treated so well. A good popular film, ample and powerful, clearly above the average.
Tuesday April 11 at 8:50 p.m. on Ciné + Premier. American fantasy film by Zack Snyder (2013). With Henry Cavill. 2:28. (Multicast and On Demand).
