Well, yeah. And the rest of the film was about a guy who can absorb kinetic energy, an insanely powerful psychic/telepath, and a dude who can control metal. Not to mention other realistic classics like the guy who can 'evolve' at will and temporarily.
I think "generals being manipulated" is on the more believable side of the scale (even if it was told in an oversimplified manner, no doubt to avoid political boredom).
Yeah, no.
Theres a clear line between reality and make believe in these movies. You put these characters in real life situations to ground them in reality, but when the reality is as crazy as the make believe stuff, it kind of all falls apart. If their goal was to make a "real" film with comic book characters in it, they failed. It should have just been a straight up comic book movie like Kick Ass or Scott Pilgrim where it clearly is all fantasy.
Im really just going by what happened in Watchmen. Both the comic and the movie did this thing way better. Well, except for the goddamn octopus. The movie did that way better than the comic. In the movie there was actual proof, real life evidence as to why they thought Dr. Manhattan did that shit. In this one? Not really. Just makes humanity look REAL stupid.
And as much as I hate the human race myself, were not THAT dumb.