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Superman Doesn’t Soar
Lex Luthor’s a geek. He quotes Arthur C. Clarke (”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” he tells his girlfriend) and gives one of his thugs a digital video camera to document his crimes. And Lex admires Prometheus, the god who gave fire — the first killer app — to humans.

Superman, on the other hand, is a faith-based guy. He serves a higher power. Voices in his head dictate his every move.

So, does Superman Returns give us a juicy faith-versus-science battle? No such luck.

Filled with big ideas that never quite gel and spiked with suggestive imagery that ultimately feels meaningless, Bryan Singer’s film floats from one gorgeous scene to another without quite connecting the emotional or narrative dots.

At 157 minutes long, it’s both bloated and provocative, an overlong essay by a bright student who read the texts but didn’t finish working out his thesis.

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