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Not the complete disaster, reputed to be, But weaknesses outweigh a few strong elements, The strong : nice seeing Clark going back to Smallville to take over family farm, Nice seeing the Daily Planet crew back - Lois, Jimmy, Perry, and Margot Kidder, all get to do a lot more, And there's a nice romance between Mariel and Clark, And I teared up during Clark's dying sickness, and Superman's cape falling past the Statue of Liberty. All great, The weak - way too campy villian, Nuclear Man, Poorly staged battles, shoddy amatuerish fx, Movie seems to have gone thru heavy editing to cut down on running time, with abrupt scene changes, Jon Cryer is wasted, Gene Hackman seems to be having fun, but attempts to capture the magic of the first 2 movies fails, Finding out movie ran out of money, explains the jumps in plot, and whole scenes awkwardly missing,

This is by far the worst in the series story wise and humor wise its honestly just kind of boring the action is some of the best in the series but thats all it really has and it completely ignores the previous movie and while that would usually be fine in this series its not with this one due to the story its telling

e simples mente uma bosta liquida meu irmao... eu nao sei o que se passa na cabeça da wb e da dc tambem porque se chegar no 5 filme vai ate chegar no 6 filme... me sericordia

It's a little amazing, really, how quickly the original Superman franchise eroded into bad comedy. This being the ground floor of said descent, it bears little similarity to the original film beyond several key casting choices and a shiny spit curl. Christopher Reeve returns as the title character, with Margot Kidder suffering an expanded role and Gene Hackman back from a one-film exile to ham it up once again as a clueless, underwhelming Lex Luthor. Filling the Richard Pryor "why?!" role is Jon Cryer, then best known as Duckie from Pretty in Pink, who plays some sort of pointless, meandering male twist on the Valley Girl stereotype that had been rolling through culture for a few years at this point. I'm still not entirely sure why he was elbowed into the plot. This isn't aggressively bad like Superman III, it's just hopelessly inept. In fact, the core of the story has potential: Superman, inspired by a letter from a young boy, destroys the world's nuclear armaments and discovers that some problems can't be solved quite so easily. It sputters and fails right on the launchpad, though, and soon falls back on a muscle-flexing brawl with some generic evil menace to settle the issue. Its grasp on physics, and reality as a whole, is so loose it's almost adorable. I'd smile and pat my four-year-old son on the head if he suggested we move the moon around to keep the sun out of his eyes, but for this film that's a legitimate solution. To say its answers make any sense would be an insult to sense itself. The whole thing plays like an easy answer to a complex problem, from the story to the editing to the acting and effects work. These older superhero movies don't hold up to the rigors of time as a whole, but Superman IV looks particularly bad in a modern setting. Even the hero's indistinguishable costume seems cut-rate and fake, like they forgot to commission a wardrobe department until the night before production. Head-shakingly pointless and dull, this film only seems to exist to kill time. Which, thankfully, it doesn't demand in great quantities. While the original cut came in at over two hours, some greedy last-minute cuts trimmed it down to a slim ninety minutes. Why the late edits? To ensure a few more showings each day at theaters nationwide. Of course.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS NO SPOILERS: This movie is so bad that it is a work of art, this is the next Mona Lisa of film. If you're in a **** mood, turn on Superman IV.

This is the film they showed the most on my local television broadcast back in the day. Why, well a few reasons: It's short. It has actors in the scenes. It's short. It has action scenes. It's short. It doesn't make sense in any order you put the film in. It is edited together incredibly poorly. The main Vilian ****. Superman is an Idiot now and does weird things. It's Cheap. It looks like dog doo doo. I can go on... I don't like this film, I like the Idea but everything in this film is just made badly. It was clearly made very cheaply like the money made from Superman III couldn't push it even to quality standards at the time. The only thing I like is maybe Clarks Date, and I don't know what happened to Miss Lane but it looks like she's been in a terrible accident. I don't know about the actual actors' health at the time but sheesh she looked bad in this film. Superman IV: The Quest for More Budget, I think WB at that point should have just cut their losses after Superman III, because everything that happens in here almost wipes the slate clean from the previous film. Is this a bad film overall? Yes, it's clear as day. Is it entertaining? A little bit. 4/10 it's missing a lot of what made the previous films enjoyable, it doesn't take its time, scenes are cut very poorly, and Characters are just doing things that have no representation in the actual plot. The first half of the movie is completely Pointless, Completely. Luckily this is the last Superman film with Christopher Reeves. Thank you for being a really cool Superman and Showing a Side of Superman that most people would relate to, also I like this version of Clark Kent, the clumsy, goody guy is a great personality. Well, that's It, that's all the Superman Films....Until Superman Returns.

For me, Superman 4 isn't as bad as I remember and it was VERY cheap, but was trying to show the love for the first 2 Superman movies

I loved the first two Superman films, the third was okay, but this one was awful. Other than Christopher Reeve's assured lead performance and the rousing score, there is very little I can say that is good about this film. The special effects are incredibly cheesy and dated. The story is hackneyed, unoriginal and pretty predictable. The script is lamentable. The direction is stodgy. The pacing is uneven- there are parts that are rushed and there are parts that drag. The other acting is not even worth mentioning, as much as I love Gene Hackman I just don't buy the possibility he thought this film had a good script. Overall, awful and while not the worst sequel ever made it is a disgrace. 1/10 Bethany Cox

When I decided to see this movie, I already knew what I was going to find, and I wasn't surprised by how bad and incredibly amateur it is. For me, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen: history is a jumble of ideas with no logical connection or clear sense, predictable, boring. It begins with an escalation in the nuclear arms race, deftly and promptly resolved by the hero in an absolutely unbelievable way, and then revolves into a rivalry between him and a villain that Lex Luthor creates virtually out of nowhere, since the bombs were destroyed. There are holes almost the size of houses in this silly plot, and the movie really does look like it was made of pieces from various stories sewn together like a patchwork quilt. It's better not to mention the romantic subplot in the film… The cast's performance doesn't help to save it. There is virtually not a single actor or actress who deserves a positive standout. It's not just their fault, but also the hideous script, the undignified material they were given and the atrocious incompetence of director Sidney Furie, who turned out to be so good that it would have been better to make the film without a director at all. Christopher Reeve also deserves a negative note, with a smug, pompous and irritating performance that is an indelible stain on his acting career. Technically, the movie is more than just old… it's archaic, primitive and has aged terribly. The visual and special effects used are so unacceptably far-fetched that they simply shouldn't have been used. They almost turned it into a B-movie. And is it really worth talking about a cinematography without any depth, with bad light and washed-out colors? Perhaps the best thing, really, is to forget about this movie and use the VHS to patch up a limp table.

So much trash in this movie, the biggest disappointment are the special effects: they look so cheap. Also the story is a joke and has some logical mistakes.

WORST comic book movie of all time. Bad villain. Bad plot. Boring as crap.

I'm going to be generous and give Superman IV: The Quest for Peace a 8 rating. My reasons are a few and quite unarguable really.... Firstly I didn't like Superman II much because it felt depressing even with the three villains fighting Superman it just didn't feel nice. Secondly I got to see actor Sam Wanamaker from Raw Deal (1986) and enjoyed his presence onscreen even though he didn't bring much to the actual movie itself. Thirdly actress Mariel Hemingway was always sexy and usually up to no good and she was the kind of woman I'd sleep with and finally I liked the villain and the idea he came from the sun and how Christopher Reeve's Superman character eventually ends up stopping him. Superman IV has many great scenes especially with Superman and Nuclear Man and Gene Hackman as Lex Luther was cool. Not the best movie but okay and certainly better than Superman II.

While this is in no way a good film, it is superior to the absolutely awful Superman III. It is largely boring, and Reeve and Kidder aren't given enough to do. The graphics are actually worse than the preceding films.

I think we can all agree that this low budget of a superhero film is hilariously crap. The writing, the background, the charathers, every on here is like watching a long boring TV episode.

If I didn't even like the previous Superman movies, then Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is in an entirely different ballpark. Not a good one.

This is a stupidest sequel ever. Superman 1&2 are not my favorites, but to be entertain. Third one was lame, but not the worst. This one is the worst. Bad direction, dumb writing, and stupid message at the end.

Seeing the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race that could lead to Earth's destruction, Superman (Christopher Reeve) decides that he must take action. He collects all the nuclear warheads from the world and throws them into space. Meanwhile, Superman's nemesis, Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), has broken out of prison with a new scheme. He clones Superman with radioactive material to create Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow), a being just as powerful as the man of steel.

Terrible in every way imaginable. The story was blah, the characters were boring, the person who portrayed superman is an idiot. 0/10. I have never seen anything so bad in my life.

Superman IV: The Quest For Peace is for sure the worst Superman movie to date. There's so much that's wrong about this movie to the point of absurdity. First off, the filmmakers clearly didn't have enough money to make even a fine CGI/special effect look in this movie. Early on we see a car crash directly down into a pit, but there's no explosion that happens or even a sound. The film is also complete with super random Superman powers, including him staring super hard at a spaceship, and it just vanishes. There's also a scene where he uses his eyes to rebuild a wall of bricks. The film is also very famous for having some of the worst green screen effects ever made. There's multiple shots of Superman flying around, and it just appears as if the filmmakers aren't even trying at all to make a convincing Superman! Superman IV: The Quest For Peace isn't only the worst Superman movie ever made, it's for sure one of the worst superhero movies ever!

This isn't a superhero movie. It's a 500-foot commercial/trailer for itself and the cancelled Superman V, filled with the dullest special effects I've ever seen.

If you want a inspiring super hero to have a movie full of terrible special effects, a terrible story, and some of the dumbest things superman has ever done, then we have the movie for you.

Appearing in 1987, when most assumed that the series had been put to rest, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, with a story dreamed up in part by Reeve, plays like the unholy union of a PSA and the WWF. Stirred by a schoolboy's letter, Reeve decides to rid the world of nuclear weapons by tossing them in a giant net and throwing them at the sun. Meanwhile, Hackman's Luthor, aided by slang-talking surfer nephew Jon Cryer, creates a new super-rival: Nuclear Man, who locks horns with Reeve against a variety of rear-projection backdrops. By this point, the production values had dipped so low that director Sidney J. Furie might as well have imported footage from the old George Reeves series. Unsurprisingly, the series ended there, its first two entries illustrating what grand-scale entertainment could do, the remainder illustrating the perils of doing it to death.

If you thought superman 3 was terrible this is a whole new level of **** it took all the problems from the third film and made them ten times worse so **** terrible OMG!!! its head ache inducing bad!!

Probably one of the worst movies ever made. Seriously. The effects are terrible(they make the first two films look like Avatar), most of the characters are stupid, and it's insanely predictable. Nothing here is original, not even Christopher Reeve can save it. It's the worst Superman movie, bar none.

Even though I have written a review for this movie before, it was based on what I saw when I was a kid so I decide to watch it again. And it turns out to be much horrible than I remembered. The CGI is horrible, this movie felt like a soap opera rather than a movie and the plot was just god awful. While watching this movie, I was thinking in my mind: What happened to how splendid the first Superman movie is? This is easily hands down, not only the worst Superman movie I've seen, but also the worst superhero movie ever. However this movie is so bad it's funny, and if you enjoy good bad movies, you will definitely enjoy laughing at this movie.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man as he struggles to fight off the evil of Lex Luthor.

And to think some people say Man of Steel is the worst. This thing is laughably bad. The only merit this atrocity on film has is that it can be fun to tear apart with your friends. Just sit down, watch it, and try to point out every facepalm-inducing screw-up this thing makes. It can be a little fun in a sickening, morbid way.

Stunning. I've never seen anything like this. This is better than all of the other movies coming out these days. Probably my favoritest movie ever in the entire universe.

This movie is just awful. Anyone with common sense will find this **** boring, unexciting, and the CGI, oh where do I start. The CGI is so poor, so fake and so f*cking laughable that you actually at one point, you believe this came from a 6 year old boy

Unwatchable! Boring plot, boring action, cheap effects (even compared to the previous installments whos effects are out of time now), even the actors did their worst, compared to the other movies. I don't think anyone wants to watch it ever again.

As a kid this was my favourite Superman film, but in retrospect it is a giant mess of a movie. I am surprised that it was released in theatres as its low budget and cheap effects were clearly made for straight to video.

The series seems to have dwindled short on ideas in this fourth installment. The plot isn't creative, the special effects are sorely dated, and the entire cast seems uninterested. It's safe to say that enough is enough.

Christopher Reeves is a fantastic Superman, but even he seems half asleep in this awful sequel. Terrible plot, lackluster effects, a trainwreck sense of direction, and an absolute lack of an epic scope that the first two delivered on so well makes Superman IV: The Quest for Peace not only the worst Superman film, but one of the worst comic book movies in general

It came to a stage in these movie's were Christopher Reeve started carrying the movie's on his shoulder's they faded and this sequel is no different. The story dragged from start to finish it. It wasn't fair after Superman: The Movie the character got dragged through three director's and it went into a downward spiral. As a fan of the character you let certain thing's slip in the movie. The flying sequences were poor, the villain was poor and it wasn't a very good movie.