Methods of Montage

seeing how shots in certain different directions are used help try to relay the effect that the director is trying to get out of the audience's possible reaction. like during a showdown in the old west switching every few seconds to each person involved in the main area of the scene. Zack Synder's use of montage  in "Man of Steel" confused me like crazy, because his method was erratic at times, where it was emotional on certain parts or it becoming metric at certain bits. but a better director at using montage was christopher nolan in his batman movies, where he established forms of montage at the right length without swinging from scene to scene like zack sender.