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Pretty impressive. A lot better than I originally thought. It's no Superman II but great on it's own. I had only one problem with the casting; Kate Bosworth. She's hot but she wouldn't have been my first choice to play Lois. She just looks way too young for the part. Brandon Routh however was very impressive despite this being only his first movie. Routh may share an uncanny resemblance to the late Christopher Reeve, but this Superman is his own. Kevin Spacey, to me, has never appeared in a bad role and does it again here as the diabolical Lex Luthor. Spacey's Luthor is the most evil and maniacal incarnation of the character yet. Gene Hackman's got nothing on him! This movie was not as good as Batman Begins or Spider-man 2 but I'd definitely rank it somewhere up there. Kudos to director Bryan Singer for taking Supes in the right direction!

I don't have much hope for movies that premiere on the Sci Fi network (unless of course it's a theatrical movie ie. "The Hulk" etc.) because they are never great. Sci Fi seems to be an outlet for B-grade movies that probably premiere theatrically in other countries except here because their so terrible. "Manticore" is no exception. Everything about this movie sucked. The FX were cheap and some of the same shots were used over and over. The acting was some of the worst I have ever seen. The story was laughable. The gore effects were extremely cheesy and lame. These movies, for some sick reason, have their fans and I'm proud to say that I'm not one of them. "Manticore" sucks.

This movie came out some time in the 80's so for obvious reasons the fight scenes look crappy. Well we live in the "Matrix" age now where every movie since then has to resemble it or copy it somehow. This movie could have used some "Matrix"-ing. Okay, I know this movie came out in 1985, waaay before "The Matrix", but seeing this movie again just makes me want to break out in laughter. And I did. I laughed my ass off because not only was the fighting bad, but the acting and the story were also unbearable. The kids in the movie (who are his children in real life) are terrible. And then look at the awful Ninja costume Sho Kosugi wears at the end and if you don't agree that this movie sucks, you've got problems.