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I'm going to catch a lot flak for this, but the "Bullet in the eye" scene was ridiculous, laughable.
Evidently none of you have ever fired a side arm or rifle.
I find it funny that the airplane saving sequence tried to realistically show how difficult it would really be to stop a plummeting airliner from crashing, but the bullet in the eye scene was totally unrealistic, and ludicrous at best.
There's a Helluva lot of energy generated at muzzle velocity when a bullet exits a barrel. In the film. Superman's eyeball flexes slightly upon impact..
The "give" isn't even a fraction of the amount necessary to absorb that energy.
The bullet should have ricochet wildly in a random direction. Not just drop harmlessly to the ground.
In order for the eye to have absorbed and dissipate the energy generated from the shot, it would have had to flex inwardly enough to envelope the slug, and the eyeball would have had to carry it, traveling all the way to the back of the inside of the skull, then slowly return to it's proper place in the eye socket to harmlessly drop the slug to the ground.
I realize the scene was filmed that way for visual effect, but for me it was a joke, and I wasn't impressed.
For visual effects, the airplane sequence is the film's only redeeming quality.
Most of all the rest of the Effects just aren't that noteworthy as these days most quality Super hero films (or Sci Fi/Fantasy) have just as good if not better special effects.
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong have much more impressive special effects than that of Superman Returns.
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thumbs up to them 
