Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

What a waste of my time!!!

just watch it!

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

"Superman IV: The Quest for Piece". As you might expect, this is not a good movie. But it's not that bad either. It has funny moments that are goofy enough to entertain you. At some points in the film though, it was boring. Overly long and awkward scenes with no connection to the plot, whatsoever. Christopher Reeves is great as always, though again awkward as times. Especially as Clark Kent. I know Kent is supposed to be a clumsy mild mannered dork. But this film takes it too far. Being a slapstick comedy. I really don't know if the filmmakers were serious about this, but if they were, that's just sad. "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" is not as bad as (almost) everyone says. It's not a series film. But I like the idea of bringing peace to earth. But this is not the film to showcase that. Watch this with your friends and have a good time.

This is the movie that killed the Superman franchise until 2007. The acting was just awful and the effects were not really good. I also think that the main villain (Nuclear Man) was just a carbon copy of Superman, except less interesting. The music, however, is a saving grace for this film, so I'd recommend getting the soundtrack to this movie instead of watching the actual movie. 1/10.

They were scrapping the bottom of the barrel when "Superman 4: The Quest for Peace" was unleashed upon an unprepared public! I made a quest for peace after seeing this rubbish! The budget had been reduced to practically nil, which is the worst thing that could have been done. To present anything resembling a remotely convincing illusion that a man can fly, there has to be money on the special effects and loads of it. The film may have had honourable intentions, this I don't doubt. Sadly, a poor story and a very poor script defeat this Superman movie. It was great to see Gene Hackman return as Lex Luthor (the character belongs to him) and at least he has some more scenes with Christopher Reeve. I don't particularly care for the villain Nuclearman. He is laughable rather than menacing. The only scene I thought was any good, is the one where Superman returns to his home farm in Smallville. He is in his disguise as Clark Kent as he takes a walk around the house and the barn, alone. He thinks back to the days when he was raised on that farm by Jonathan and Martha Kent. How time has elapsed since then, now that his earth parents are deceased. With no one else around, Superman feels he can be more like his real self and not acting as the clumsy oaf. Then a stranger pulls up at the Kent farm. I doubt if any of the film was filmed on location in America. More likely a lot of it was filmed in England. Box office takings were disappointing and a disaster.

Dear Superman Superman, Superman, how could you have sunk this low? Look mate, you had two brilliant films before. Superman, a huge achievement for all involved and the film that more or less kick started the superhero genre and Superman 2, a brilliant sequel that, while not a huge landmark like the first, can still stand on it's own in terms of story and acting.But then it started falling apart.When the Newmans were bought in to write Superman 3, that's when I started dreading the future of your franchise. They wanted to make your first movie campy and all that nonsense, but luckily they got kicked out. Sadly with Richard Donner truly out of the action, the Salkinds bought them in and Superman 3 became the film I was dreading it to be, a silly and stupid film with constant mugging from Richard Pryor and really terrible and dated gags.Then they tried to give Supergirl a film of her own and it even that wasn't a hit with the critics.Afterwards the Salkinds said "Enough is enough" and thus they sold you off to Cannon Films.That's when the cracks was really starting to show.Cannon are a rather cheap company and I knew a studio as cheap as Cannon certainly can't do justice to a superhero like you.And they tried.... they really did...and it was all for nothing.I really hate to say this to ya Superman, but man oh man was your fourth film a huge disaster all round. In fact even more than the third one.The plot sounded rather interesting, I mean you trying to stop a nuclear war from happening. That is a perfect concept for a fourth film... but then Nuclear Man walks in, and the only way from there is downhill.Reeeaaalllyyy downhill.Soon the film starts to really take a nose dive, everything from the dialogue to the incredibly cheesy and horrifically awful special effects start taking over.We're not taking this seriously, we're laughing.Laughing at the fact that the tornado scene is so laughably fake (fake as in it was all done on green screen.Laughing at the fact that the final battle between you and Nuclear Man is really just an excuse to show off incredibly cartoony looking effects.Laughing at the fact that Gene Hackman sounds unintentionally funny as Nuclear Man (played by a rather wooden looking Mark Pillow by the way).But at the same time, we're thinking... why... why are we being subjected to torture like this? Look I'll give some of the actors credit, it was nice to see Gene Hackman back as Lex Luthor (even though the horrible dialogue didn't do much)and Christopher Reeve was alright as of course you, Superman.But all of it still feels like it was done for nothing.It feels like it was just done to keep your franchise alive and made for a quick penny so that Cannon can make more cheesy films.Well the joke was on them... The film ended up bombing and it was panned by critics and fans alike.Yet I still feel disappointed at you Superman, I feel disappointed that instead of a film that would rub away all those horrid memories of Superman 3, we instead got a film that made that look like Citizen Kane.Honestly Superman, you're a super hero. And you should know better than to put your name on low budget guff like this? Well at least you got Man Of Steel afterwards though that still isn't saying much...Here's hoping someone actually does you justice in the near future...From RetroMagFan