Making you believe a man can fly is the easy part. DC's Man of Steel has been a fixture on cinema screens ever since Richard Donner directed the wonderful "Superman: The Movie." But, with its ridiculous time-turning conclusion, the 1978 classic revealed a problem that's been plaguing the last son of Krypton ever since: Superman movies never end well.
This may be down to a fundamental flaw with the character: Superman's lack of weakness is actually his biggest weakness. Indeed, that god-like skillset makes him so across-the-board powerful that writers require Brainiac-level intellect to imagine enemies capable of defeating him. And with few of Superman's friends powerful enough to rescue him from such biblical threats (even Krypto), deus ex machina often proves to be his only salvation — particularly within the two- to three-hour running time of a film.
