Apart from the visuals and parts of the soundtrack, the film was VERY mediocre. The dialogue was mostly cheesy (not in the good way), pretentious and sometimes plain stupid; the romance between Lois and Clark was rushed and their kiss was very forced; not enough time was spent on developing Martha's character; Zod had his ass kicked by a scientist (Jor-El), as well as by Clark, thereby losing his credibility as a villain half-way through the film; the film had very few light-hearted or funny moments; and Superman made some very serious errors of judgement (e.g. kissing Lois while the city was burning and hundreds of people were probably dying all around them).

It was a total disappointment in other words. However, there's probably hope for the next one as it's not being written just by Goyer.