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POSTED  ON JUNE 23, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY Note: Some mild spoilers included . Faster than a speeding bullet!  More powerful than a locomotive!  Able to leap tall buildings in a single   bound!   If that sounds a little old-fashioned and cheesy, then the reboot of the Superman series is for you.  Unlike its film and television predecessors,  Man of Steel dispenses with the cheese in favor of grit, and exchanges familiar character profiles for something more modern and realistic. In this version of the DC Comics classic, Krypton is rent both literally and figuratively.  Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and Lara (Ayalet Zurer) produce the first natural birth in centuries on Krypton, which takes on a very  Brave New World- meets- The Matrix  tone in the opening sequences.  As the planet reels toward destruction, General Zod (Michael Shannon) attempts a coup while Jor-El sends the newborn Kal rocketing toward Earth along with the “cod...