After 10 years and a great deal of turmoil within the resulting franchise, rewatching Zack Snyder's Man of Steel highlights a number of harsh truths about the film. Snyder's movie marked the beginning of DC's shared movie universe, introducing Henry Cavill's Superman as its core hero. Written as a slightly grittier take on the eponymous character, Man of Steel tells a Superman origin story in which the hero must stop the Kryptonian General Zod from conquering Earth, beginning his journey as the world's most important hero in the process.

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