It felt very natural to me, she's fighting back tears and her heart is clearly broken. Fair enough though each to their own, it's a shame you didn't enjoy the movie like I did. Hopefully the sequel will be more what you wanted.
I liked the movie, just not as much as I was hoping I would because it was not all that I was hoping it would be. My main issues with it were the dialogue and editing/story structure, maybe some of the story points. Everything else was great, including the performances.
But yes, hopefully the sequel improves in those areas. Looking forward to it.
Ayelet Zurer's Lara is in my opinion the most underrated performance of the entire movie. It actually annoys me that everyone in interviews just ignores her part. I know it was small and only in the first 20 minutes but I thought she was amazing. Great believable performance.
I thought she was good too, it was just her delivery in that one scene at that one part I didn't like. I'd have re-shot it if I were Zack and went with a different take. The rest of her performance was fine.
Not to get off topic, but this REALLY, REAAALLLYYYYYY bothered me about the movie. I enjoyed it a lot, but I couldn't get past the gripe that Clark Kent wouldn't stand there and let his father die if he could help it, even if Jonathan Kent wanted it to. As a matter of fact, I'm not really sure I dug the movie's portrayal of JK at all.
The concept of Pa Kent feeling that way is cool, but it is way too underdeveloped for us (me at least) to get behind Clark allowing his dad to die because he feels so strongly about Clark's powers. Had they developed this more and really hammered it in it may have worked, there's too little of it there and it comes off as kind of....insane. I thought casting Costner was a great idea, but I wasn't too thrilled with the characterization they gave him to work with, it's a wonder Clark didn't grow up to be a meth addict. Long drawn out speeches always prepared like he's Obi-Wan rather than a natural conversation a person or father would have with his son (re: Glen Ford in Superman: The Movie "you are here for a reason.." struggles to find something to finish with "...but it's not to score touchdowns"....there's almost no down to earth dialogue that a character would say in the film, one of my biggest criticisms with Goyer...you can always tell it's something someone has obviously written (re: every conversation in TDK trilogy; they're like discussions people would have about the characters rather than something the characters themselves would actually say, which is dialogue, speeches do not = dialogue (unless you're David Goyer of course)).
And back on topic, Tom Cruise as Lex? Idk....while his best performance to me is Les Grosman, it's a humorous one, and I have trouble taking him serious as a "tough" guy or hardass to begin with, so I definitely won't buy him as a scary threatening villain. He's laughable to me when he's trying to be an action hero, like in Jack Reacher. Struck me as what he thinks of himself as rather than a character he really became. Lol. Cruise's best roles to me are in movies like Rain Man and A Few Good Men...when he plays those type of characters...and I will admit I liked him in the Mission Impossible movies, but he wasn't as bombastic in those as he was in Jack Reacher. Regardless of the role he plays though, I usually always see Tom Cruise. He comes through too much (not necessarily bad, I find him to be a pretty likeable person), I don't think I could really see him as Luthor. lol
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