Superman

Overview

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

Rating

18 Reviews

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  Atkins

  4 Sep 7, 2025

  I walked into Superman with cautious optimism. The cast is strong, and to be fair, not a single actor delivers a bad performance. The problem lies entirely behind the camera: James Gunn. Once again, Gunn directs as if he only knows how to make one kind of movie. What we get doesn’t feel like a bold reinvention of the Man of Steel — it feels like the same film he’s been making for years, just with different costumes. In every one of his projects, he throws in monsters that look more like oversized pets than genuine threats, stripping away any sense of menace. And instead of focusing on iconic heroes that audiences actually care about, he leans on strange, second-rate characters — names like Mr. Terrific or Guy Gardner — that nobody outside comic-book diehards is interested in. This has been his trademark since Guardians of the Galaxy, when he first turned a group of unknowns into his personal playground. Let’s be clear: there’s a difference between a director leaving his personal stamp on a film and a director simply repeating himself. Gunn does the latter. Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker — it’s always the same movie with a different label. If that formula were brilliant, maybe repetition would be welcome. But the “Gunn formula” is shallow, clumsy, and exhausting. I had hoped that after so many missteps DC has taken with its recent films, this reboot would finally be different. Unfortunately, it isn’t.

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  Chandler Danier

  7 Sep 12, 2025

  This is a fine vacuous way to spend your time. If you're upset that a Superman movie is just kind of trash, you are not a Superman movie fan. I don't like that James Gunn is the voice of modern comics. I do kind of like his humour. Herzog warned them about the dog. Listen to Werner. He's on instagram now. I'm on board for a Mr. Terrific feature.

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  Harshal Kudale

  Sep 22, 2025

  Loved the movie. Seeing a DC movie after a long time. it was worth it.

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  Dr_Nostromo

  8 Nov 12, 2025

  75/100 Classic Superman vs. Lex Luthor vehicle where Lex wants Superman dead. James Gunn comes through with a fun, ofttimes humorous and exciting version of Superman which is sorely needed after the string of far-too-serious entries in the previous DC lexicon. Dispensing with the origin story and already having Kent and Lois as an item and getting right to the story was gratefully appreciated ..we've been through it so many times before. The story is intriguing, the casting is brilliant, the characters are a riot and the action is top notch. We loved it! -- DrNostromo.com

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  Jstewart2007

  9 Jan 14, 2026

  This is the Superman I've been wanting for a long time. If this is how the DC Universe is going to be, sign me up. All the castings were great, and the score was amazing.

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  RealZero

  5 Mar 7, 2026

  [This review contains spoilers!] The movie, like its trailer, started off with interesting thoughts: How does the existence of superheros influence politics? Can and should they be neutral? Do they represent countries? An interesting topic one usually sees in darker superhero media. Sadly, in the end this wasn't used very much anymore once it was used to imprison Superman. That aside, most of the movie was average superhero stuff for me, but sadly with few of the "cool" things other superhero movies go for. The movie wasn't "bad". The fighting was actually quite cool, and so were some of the side-characters, or, more specifically, Mister Terrific and Green Lantern Guy Gardner. The movie had two main problems for me: First off, it wasn't funny. Now, listen, a movie doesn't HAVE to be funny. Thor certainly overdid it. But every time this movie tried, it...didn't work for me. And Krypto as, as much as I like dogs, a silly gimmick just there for "haha, silly animal does silly animal things!". But more importantly: Every superhero movie requires some "suspension of disbelief". A ton of movies have situations that end up "situation x wouldn't have happened if y had just done z!" And usually that's fine, because action and emotion distract you from this until you can think about it later. But this movie had SO MANY moments where I was in disbelieve if they were really serious. The Engineer explicitly cuts in half EVERY other enemy, but leaves Krypto alive for no reason, because otherwise no one could progress the story further later? There is NO defense in the Fortress of Solitude but melee robots? Superman just calling for Krypto in his fight against Ultraman JUST at the last moment, because Krypto, until then, was just hanging around. Like...maybe it would've been useful to have him around in that fight from the beginning? And, Luthor needs plainly visible camera drones to command Ultraman, and Superman didn't realize it until the end?! And the worst: The whole "countries at war" invasion plan of Lex Luthor was smashed because...Superman asked other superheros to help? So...Lex Luthor's plan was "I just need to distract/kill Superman, then no one can stop me"...in a world with hundreds of superheroes, three to four in that one city alone?! Did he just BET on ALL of them "being politically neutral" except Superman?! Damn, no, sorry, those were too many things that seemed illogical even while watching the movie, and not just in hindsight. I recently read the DC x Sonic the Hedgehog comic. That comic had a better story. So, yeah. Some cool superhero fights, but the rest of the story didn't catch me. I did like Mister Terrific and Guy Gardner, though. I'd watch a "Justice Gang" movie!