Judging the movie by comic credentials, including accuracy to the books themselves, accuracy to the older comic book movies, and likeness to characters, this movie was great. All of the characters filled their parts reasonably well (sans a very emo Superman, I enjoyed the more peppy, clumsy but always smiling Reeve better) and the music was reminiscent of the older movies. However, based on standard movie review criteria and my personal feelings after watching the movie, the movie just wasn't good. Something was needed to take the accuracy and effectiveness of the characters and bring it together into a good movie. It lacked that. Perhaps everyone in production was so obsessed with making it true to the old movies and true to the comic books and true to character actions and traits that they forgot to take a step back and see if the movie could hold up by itself.
Before a huge argument ensues about the "quality" of the movie, I'll just agree to disagree
