2006 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Superman Returns
Directed by Bryan Singer2h 34m2006
Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.
Our read: Superman Returns (2006) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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