I’d wait to rent it, if I had it to do again, but I liked it okay — Routh is very cute, Kate Bosworth is much better than I’d expected, and it’s fun to watch visually.The image of Superman as Atlas, holding the Daily Planet globe as it falls, is lovely, and it’s sort of sad in spots.But it can’t decide what it wants to be, this movie, an action film or a darker study of the superhero life, and as a result it does the first part okay and makes a hash of the second (not to mention the logic holes that riddle it — does green kryptonite kill Superman or not?Make up your mind!).I think the director was overly cautious and handled all the baggage of the franchise too delicately; it’s not a bad movie but it’s a bit disappointing.(7/3/06)

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