To all the critics of the film and plot points, I'm a huge Superman and comic nerd. There were so many details of this movie that were straight out of the comic that it was impressive. So, what didn't make sense or seemed like filler time, was actually a lot of details from storylines that I found incredible.
Unfortunately, most don't read the comics like that and those are the ones seeing the movie and grading it as such. I thought it was overall fantastic and understand a lot of the decisions based upon translation to film.
I still didn't like Jesse as Lex, but other than that, they did a pretty amazing job