Yeah it's no secret that this film was intended to be a pastiche of Man of Steel to the point of copying the same font style for the trailer complete with the same shots of the young NOT Clark Kent exploring his Kansas home.
I had expected the movie to be more of a dark comedy because I think that would have worked better for the tone they were going for in trying to parody Zack Snyder's ridiculously serious take on Superman as if the superhero were a Christ substitute who has come to save Mankind and is burdened with a great mission.
But no, they instead make it a straight faced horror movie with the worn out cliche of characters dying one after another from the menace. What made the plot somewhat frustrating for me is that they really don't give NOT Clark Kent enough motivation to actually turn evil and wreak havoc on the townsfolk. They conveniently put in a plot device to account for his sudden character change , since the first 5-10 minutes of the film showed him to be a pretty ordinary twelve year old. They don't even introduce a cruel school bully or maybe an abusive uncle/aunt character to coerce him into turning to the dark side. Thus, none of the deaths in this movie really seem that much earned even from the killer's point of view.
Ultimately, with the premise they went for and the fact that this film is rated R , they could have accomplished so much more. Yes there were some interesting gory visuals but my appetite was really not satisfied with it. I guess I was suckered into seeing it on hearing that James Gunn was attached to the film. But turns out, he is just the producer. The writers also have the surname Gunn but they really don't inherit James Gunn's talent in writing a good screenplay, so bad for them.
I had expected the movie to be more of a dark comedy because I think that would have worked better for the tone they were going for in trying to parody Zack Snyder's ridiculously serious take on Superman as if the superhero were a Christ substitute who has come to save Mankind and is burdened with a great mission.
But no, they instead make it a straight faced horror movie with the worn out cliche of characters dying one after another from the menace. What made the plot somewhat frustrating for me is that they really don't give NOT Clark Kent enough motivation to actually turn evil and wreak havoc on the townsfolk. They conveniently put in a plot device to account for his sudden character change , since the first 5-10 minutes of the film showed him to be a pretty ordinary twelve year old. They don't even introduce a cruel school bully or maybe an abusive uncle/aunt character to coerce him into turning to the dark side. Thus, none of the deaths in this movie really seem that much earned even from the killer's point of view.
Ultimately, with the premise they went for and the fact that this film is rated R , they could have accomplished so much more. Yes there were some interesting gory visuals but my appetite was really not satisfied with it. I guess I was suckered into seeing it on hearing that James Gunn was attached to the film. But turns out, he is just the producer. The writers also have the surname Gunn but they really don't inherit James Gunn's talent in writing a good screenplay, so bad for them.
