There are movies which amount to a betrayal of their source material - Superman 4 - and there are movies which honour their source material - Superman 1.
Superman/Doomsday sits squarely in the middle.
On balance I would rather have this movie in existence than not, but I have to add to that "not by very much." It is OK. It is adequate. It could have been so much better.
I'm not one of those who argues for Reign of the Supermen to have formed part of it - that would have meant a multi-part offering (not that such a thing would of necessity be bad). But, in this, Doomsday is just a shade too prosaic to have been responsible for offing the Man of Steel.
For all that, I was nevertheless entertained throughout.
Oh, and I vote against the lightning bolt cheekbones, too.
Superman/Doomsday sits squarely in the middle.
On balance I would rather have this movie in existence than not, but I have to add to that "not by very much." It is OK. It is adequate. It could have been so much better.
I'm not one of those who argues for Reign of the Supermen to have formed part of it - that would have meant a multi-part offering (not that such a thing would of necessity be bad). But, in this, Doomsday is just a shade too prosaic to have been responsible for offing the Man of Steel.
For all that, I was nevertheless entertained throughout.
Oh, and I vote against the lightning bolt cheekbones, too.