This was the third film with Hackman""s villain Lex Luthor.And it was the second film with a super-villain (the other wasSuperman II (1980)).Superman Returns (2006)d.Bryan Singer, 154 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe action-adventure fantasy film opened with a background foreword:On the doomed Planet Krypton, a wise scientist placed his infant son into a spacecraft and launched him to Earth.As she looked out her window, she saw Michael Myers (Brad Loree), with whitish mask and workman""s jumpsuit, standing and looking back at her from a grassy area.Intended as a wedding present for his daughter, he questioned his clerk Tanner (Cyril Thornton) about their whereabouts.He then joined his fellow agents and the captain, who parachuted out of a trap door in the belly of the plane moments before it crashed into a snowy Rocky Mountain peak.Think of the power to create a man - and I did it.I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will.I could have bred a race.I might even have found the secret of eternal life.Elizabeth: Henry, don""t say those things.Don""tthinkthem! It""s blasphemous and wicked.We are notmeantto know those hings.Henry: It may be that I""mintendedto know the secret of life.It may be part of the Divine Plan.Elizabeth: No, no! It""s theDevilthat prompts you.It""s death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all.During Elizabeth""s admonishments about meddling in God""s affairs, she experiences a bizarre fit (she imagines an apparition hat has come to claim Henry) that reduces her to hysterical tears:Elizabeth: Listen Henry, while you""ve been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn""t sleep.