Movie Review - Superman

OK, well the start of this and Superman 2 don't tally. Jor-el has nothing to do with Zod's sentence. He is obviously their advocate in court. The Elders pass judgment. Jor-el says nothing, neither condemning Zod or supporting him. There are at least 6 Elders who all say guilty. Even if Jor-el voted, Zod, Ursa & Non would be guilty by majority. Anyway the 3 criminals should be grateful to Kal-el, he saved them from the destruction of Krypton. Launching Kal-el into space starts the cataclysm that destroys Krypton. So Superman is responsible for the destruction of his own planet. If a nuclear blast can free Zod from the phantom zone why doesn't the explosion of Krypton free them? GAPING GOOF there.

Infant Kal-el wouldn't be able to walk when he left the ship, his muscles would be atrophied, useless. Muscles only keep working in space if you exercise and Kal-el hardly had space to exercise. Isn't Lois supposed to be older than Clark? We see her as a young girl when Clark is already at high school. Jor-el lies when he says Clark is the only survivor of Krypton, knowing Zod, Ursa & Non are still alive. And he says the Red Krypton Sun caused their destruction, also a lie, he caused the explosion by launching Kal-el into space.

OK, Clark went to The Fortress Of Solitude at 18, was there 12 years learning stuff off his dad. So he was 30 when he left. Lois Lane is an awful speller for a journalist. How did she ever get the job? The train station is yet another give away as to them filming in New York. Is Park Avenue a street in New York as well, is that Hackman making a deliberate mistake on his part? How is it that the helicopter pilot is unable to land from only about a foot above the ground.

Superman has no jurisdiction to arrest the burglar apart from a citizens arrest, the policeman has no proof the burglar stole the jewels Superman shows him. The boat would just fall over in the street, it wouldn't stand freely like that. Those idiots flying Airforce One make several mistakes. They wouldn't crash with the loss of one engine and tiny bit of wing. They wouldn't have to notify civilian ground control ANYTHING! They'd be speaking to military control at all times.

And by saying they are Airforce One instantly informs who they are speaking to the President is aboard. ANY flying vessel with the US President aboard is instantly Airforce One, as ALL Air Traffic Controllers everywhere know. The Daily Planet headline is untrue. Lois didn't spend the night with Superman. She spent a few hours of the evening with him. And at no time did Superman say where Krypton was, so how did Lex work out where it was?

Anything that survived the explosion of Krypton & journey through space would have been tiny after it burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere. How did Lex know what Kryptonite was and what effect it would have on Superman? All sheer conjecture on his part. And the missile convoy wouldn't stop for any reason, no matter what they saw on the road. They certainly wouldn't stop to render any assistance. They might radio for help (highly unlikely as this would reveal their position and the position of the missile) but I don't think so. And at no time would the missile be left unguarded at all.

So far to get the Kryptonite Lex killed a total of 3 people. So why is he sent to such a soft prison if he's committed murder several times. How does Lex know the frequency he transmits on will be heard by Superman, he has no idea, again just conjecture. Why isn't there more rubble when Superman drills through the ground. The hide-out is deep so there should have been a lot of rubble as Superman would have to had dug very deep. Lex fluffs his line "Why don't you do yourself a FLAVOUR and freeze". Good goof that. The hide-out wall would have collapsed before the door ever fell inwards.

The missiles that Lex had tampered with would have both been checked over by technicians once arriving at their destinations. They would have discovered the alterations and changed them right back. So the missiles would never have gone off course. The earthquake creating Lex's new paradise would cause a tidal wave that would destroy everything that existed on that land. And put it underwater for a very long time, rendering it worthless, bankrupting Lex.

Oh, and the missiles could both be manually destroyed from the control room they were fired from. Never once is that tried. Why doesn't Lois stop driving on the road, the most obvious thing to do. And Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't just snap like that if 1 or 2 cables broke. The train wouldn't have derailed at the speed it was going. And "Superman" doesn't know Olson's name but he called him Jim!

Superman has no authority to deliver Lex to the prison, they have to be arrested by a policeman & go through a trial. Superman bypassed all that ignoring the American way completely. A generally weak ending.