“At the risk of damning Cavill with faint praise, the 30-year-old Brit makes a better Man of Steel than the milquetoast Brandon Routh did in 2006’s Superman Returns. It’s too bad that Cavill’s superhuman stiffness makes it look as though she’s trying to snog a piece of granite.” - Daily Mail “Still, at least repeatedly saving the life of pretty investigative journalist Lois Lane (Amy Adams) earns him a kiss. “Henry Cavill looks the part as the adult Clark/Superman, but he’s a bit of a stiff on screen, and it doesn’t help that his main move while wearing the cape is to roar like a lion and ball up his fists.” - Chicago Sun-Times Cavill’s Superman is an interestingly conflicted hunk, but he doesn’t resonate beyond the borders of the screen.” - Boston Globe I missed the dorky modesty of Christopher Reeves Superman, the squareness that really marked the character as an alien. “British actor Henry Cavill gives a strong, likable, occasionally moving performance in the title role, but doesn’t quite come out a movie star. “Cavill - whose performance involves more posing than acting - is alternately presented as an alien messiah, a superweapon, and an American flag flapping in the wind the one thing he never gets to be is a character.” - A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky panned director Zack Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan’s reboot, while Drew McWeeny nearly broke into nostalgia-induced tears over at HitFix, calling it “the Superman movie waited whole life to see.” Yet, all the critics unanimously agreed that Henry Cavill is handsome, like, “impossibly,” “cartoonishly” handsome - “ so ripped that he’s nearly shredded.” The leading man damn well looks like Superman, but can he play him? Here’s what the critics thought: Man of Steel’s Metacritic score of 55 is a perfect indication of the mixed reviews that have greeted the movie. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “MAN OF STEEL,” a Warner Bros.
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