Which made no sense because they had the best villian character actor of the modern era, Kevin Spacey (RIP) playing Lex Luthor.

I still don't know who fucked that up; was it bad direction or a bad character choice by Spacey. It's like he was in a separate movie...you had Superman being all adult with a kid and shit and suddenly Spacey comes on the screen looking like he's channeled Adam West's "Batman" 1960's tv show.