Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

PG

1987

1h 29m

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

Action

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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.

Critics Consensus

The Superman series bottoms with The Quest for Peace -- the action is boring, the special effects look cheaper, and none of the actors appear interested in where the plot's going.

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Joe Kane

New York Daily News

Sep 12

While the FX are pretty cheesy... Superman IV supplies enough B-movie fun to make a bijou visit worthwhile.

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Juliann Garey

Village Voice

Jul 3

Superman IV seems like a sloppy, low-budget echo of the original.

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Jami Bernard

New York Post

Jul 3

It's lazy, muddled, ambivalent, almost uneventful.

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David Crumpler

Florida Times-Union

Feb 4

2/5

The story is shallow, the special effects are strangely routine, and the characters are even more superficial than you'd expect from a film inspired by a comic book series.

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Lou Cedrone

Baltimore Sun

Oct 7

3/4

The film is very comic book, as it should be. It is also very short. It runs no more than 90 minutes, but those 90 minutes are good fun, thanks to Hackman, Reeve, Kidder and the scriptwriters who gave them all those good lines and situations.

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Nanciann Cherry

Toledo Blade

Aug 14

Everything about it is tired.

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CodyZamboni Z

@CodyZamboni 3d

Not the complete disaster, reputed to be, But the 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,

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Andre T

@andrestuckmannmoviereviews May 25

Man, I love Christopher Reeves Superman so much but man this was sad because this film is an insult to his career and his legacy and that goes far beyond the failure of Superman 3 and this movie was an absolute disaster to watch because this represent my hatred for bad superhero movies, I hate this movie so much man, this is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life and that goes for the CGI that was terrible and also the plot is awful and nuclear man is one of the worst villains ever, please don’t watch it. F

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Samitha B

@Samitha May 7

I know people hate it because how badly it was directed and the horrendous VFX. But I feel it captures Superman better than snyderverse. Had this a good director, story a bit tidied up with excellent VFX team, and some proper research into what Superman's abilities are, would have definitely made a great film.

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Shea C

@SheaRants Apr 21

I regret watching this so much

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Turner M.

@JDtheGoat Feb 19

It’s bad, like really really bad

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Farah R.

@Farah Jan 3

The weak writing, uninspired acting, and awful visual effects make this the worst Superman movie in the entire franchise. It’s clear no one was interested in creating a decent film, including the actors.

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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.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Producer: Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
Screenwriter: Lawrence Konner, Christopher Reeve
Production Co: Warner Bros., Cannon Films
Rating: PG
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.9M
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Surround