Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Time: 1h 33mins
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Quick Summary: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
The setup for this was alright, I found it really interesting. It gave a heavy handful of moral issues for Superman, showing us a more reluctant side to him. After that, the film plummets. Things that were initially set up are solved instantly so that we can move on to what this film is about, which funnily enough ruins this film.
Various plot points are dropped randomly and unfinished, or they're rushed through so quickly they don't feel finished, or even they make some downright awful unbelievable reason to solve issues.
The special effects are another bad point of this film. For example, the same terrible "green screen" shot of Superman flying toward the audience is reused so many times, and it's so bad that you didn't even want to see it once.
In general, the plot of this isn't bad. Superman rids planet Earth of all the nuclear weapons, and in doing so unknowingly creates a supervillain named Nuclear Man thanks to arch-rival Lex Luthor. The problem is the pacing, and the ending as well. None of that worked.
Speaking of the Supervillain, his acting was dreadful and he wasn't interesting to me at all. His character was pretty bad too which probably didn't help. Margot Kidder sadly wasn't as good in this one, she felt like she was incredibly unsure a lot of the time.
For me, this would be a miss even for Superman fans. Sadly it lacks the charm a lot of the others had.
2/10
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