Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 27
The Superman series bottoms out here: the action is boring, the special effects look cheaper, and none of the actors appear interested in where the plot's going.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
The Superman series bottoms out here: 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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Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges from prison obsessed with killing Superman and creates an adversary known as Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow). The two engage in a fight to the finish in various landmarks on Earth before taking their battle into
Jul 24, 1987 Wide
May 1, 2001
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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Christopher Reeve
Superman/Clark Kent -
Gene Hackman
Lex Luthor -
Jackie Cooper
Perry White -
Marc McClure
Jimmy Olsen -
Mariel Hemingway
Lacy Warfield -
Jon Cryer
Lenny -
Margot Kidder
Lois Lane -
Sam Wanamaker
David Warfield -
Mark Pillow
Nuclear Man -
Robert Beatty
U.S. President -
Yuri Borienko
Russian General - Red S... -
Jim Broadbent
Jean Pierre Dubois -
Jayne Brook
Teacher - JFK High Scho... -
Keith Edwards
Technician - Fort Mason -
Don Fellows
Levon Hornsby -
Philip Fox
Husband - Great Wall of... -
John Hollis
Russian General 3 (Krem... -
William Hootkins
Harry Howler -
Boris Isarov
Cosmonaut Captain -
Esmond Knight
Second Elder -
Eiji Kusuhara
U.N. Guard - Japanese -
Bradley Lavelle
Tall Marshall (Chain Ga... -
Mac McDonald
Marshall 1 -
Peter Penry-Jones
Tourist - Great Wall of... -
Steve Plytas
Russian General 2 -
Bob Sherman
Senator - Pentagon -
Ron Travis
Convict -
Susannah York
Superman's Mother Lara -
Eugene Lipinski
Cosmonaut - Space Walke... -
Dennis Creaghan
Bill Compton -
Mark Caven
Priest - Boystown -
Czeslaw Grocholski
Russian General 1 -
Stanley Lebor
General Romoff -
Raymond Marlowe
Navy Chief -
Ted Maynard
Army Chief -
Kerry Shale
MBC Newscaster -
David Garth
First Elder -
Marco Messeri
Otello -
Giulia Boschi
Daria -
Mario Adorf
Tornova -
Meme Perlini
Cecco -
Tino Carraro
Melandri -
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Remo Remotti
Italo -
Silvana De Santis
innkeeper -
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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (28) | DVD (14)
The earlier films in the series were far from perfect, but at their best they had some flair and agreeable humor, qualities this one sorely lacks.
Top CriticBy ordinary movie standards it's awful, but fans of cinematic dementia should have fun for about half an hour.
About as dreary as a summit conference in Belgium.
The Superman series gets more and more whimsically outrageous as it goes along.
One of the cheesiest movies ever made.
More sluggish than a funeral barge, cheaper than a sale at K mart, it's a nerd, it's a shame, it's Superman IV.
Predictably awful fourth installment.
With the passing of the production torch to infamous budget tightwads Golan and Globus, it was clear that the worst was yet to come.
The special effects are decidedly on the cheap side.
Disappointing to say the least, but at least it doesn't have Richard Pryor this time as its star.
The cut-rate production resulted in what Reeve termed "catastrophe" for a film intended to marry a serious message to the series' signature action, humor, and romance.
...this final sigh of a movie manages to send the series out with a feeble yet breathing dignity. It's bad, but it's better than III in that it does try to rise above itself.
Warner's DVD release has a clean anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) and audio in Dolby 2.0 mono.
Avoid!
That this movie is how the Superman movie legacy ended would be a depressing thought if the movie weren't so endlessly hilarious.
Great cast, terrible premise, done ultra-cheap. Sad Supes had to go out like this.
Audience Reviews for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
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- Superman/Clark Kent: Once more, we have survived the threat of war and found a fragile peace. I thought I could give you all the gift of the freedom from war, but I was wrong. It's not mine to give. We're still a young planet. There are galaxies out there. Other civilizations for us to meet and to learn from. What a brilliant future we could have. And there will be peace ? there will be peace when the people of this world want it so badly that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them. I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it. Because when you really look at it, it's just one world.
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- Lenny: The Dude of Steel! Boy are you gonna get it!
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- Nuclear Man: Where's the woman?
- Superman/Clark Kent: Give it up you'll never find her!
- Nuclear Man: If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!
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