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09/26/01
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:3
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: The Superman series bottoms out here: the action is boring, the special effects look cheaper, and none of the actors appear interested with where the plot's going.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Superman has recognized at last the greatest threat to humanity, and he is out to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, now a nuclear arms entrepreneur, creates Nuclear Man--a... [More]
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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Reviews for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
No review available.
01/03/05
By ordinary movie standards it's awful, but fans of cinematic dementia should have fun for about half an hour.
04/17/07
No review available.
08/27/02
Disappointing to say the least, but at least it doesn't have Richard Pryor this time as its star.
12/23/06
...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.
04/05/06
No review available.
07/26/02
That this movie is how the Superman movie legacy ended would be a depressing thought if the movie weren’t so endlessly hilarious.
06/18/05
Should have been a quest for a better script. Ridiculous, tedious, and lifeless. Characters a shadow of their former selves. A sad note for the franchise to end on.
03/22/03
No review available.
06/17/05
No review available.
03/12/05
Avoid!
08/23/05
Quickly followed by Superman V: The Need to Explain What The Hell We Were Thinking.
11/01/02
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.
07/05/06
No review available.
07/26/02
No review available.
06/25/04
The Superman series gets more and more whimsically outrageous as it goes along.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
12/10/03
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