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I went to see Superman tonight. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a really great movie. That being said, there were four real problems.
1. Too much foreshadowing. They lined up the plot events and teed off. They set up every single plot twist very early in the movie. I knew what was going to happened by 20 minutes in. That didn't really ruin the movie for me, it was fun to watch, but I wish there had been something I couldn't have predicted. As soon as we saw Lois's son, I knew he was Superman's kid. They even tell us the kid's age, yet Robert (?), the man Lois is engaged to but won't marry (!) doesn't seem to realize that he's raising another man's son. We even get the "you'll grow up big and strong, just like Daddy," line when the only adult male in the camera view is Clark, but you know that Robert is just out of the shot. Yeah. Laid that on a bit thick.
2. Speaking of the kid, he wasn't much of an actor. At all. He was dead faced when he wasn't speaking, and when he did have a line, it was flat. The kid had no personality at all.
3. The Christ imagery was thick too. He is the "savior" and the "light of mankind." Plus we have the sun halo, and him falling to the earth in the shape of the cross. Add that to the fact that he dies and comes back to life, and the wound in the side. We get it. Thanks.
4. Lex was an after thought. He was there so that there was an exterior conflict to add some flavor to the conflict between Lois and Superman. Even Clark was just an after thought. We hardly saw him. It was disappointing. And Lex's girlfriend didn't die, which made me sad. She should have died, and quickly. I'm actually surprised that Lex didn't do it himself after the stunt she pulled when they were fleeing on the helicopter. Kevin Spacy was amazing, as usual, but the character wasn't evil enough. He could have used the kid for a bargaining tool, especially since he realized that the kid had an aversion to kriptonite, and he even asked if the kid was Superman's, but he never capitalized on that. Meh.
The biggest suspension of disbelief in the whole movie wasn't the flying or the fact that any man would be caught wearing a tight blue suit and red cape, it was that no one realize that Clark was Superman. His glasses even fell off at one point, and they arrived the same day. There was a nod to that fact, which was nice, but still... they could have done more.