SUPERMAN IV - THE QUEST FOR PEACE
  
STARRING: Christopher
Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, Mark Pillow,
Mariel Hemingway, Margot Kidder
1987, 90 Minutes, Directed by: Sidney J Furie
 An
earnest attempt to recapture some of the magic that made Superman
- the Movie and Superman II so special.
No hokey
out-of-place intro sequences like that at the beginning of Superman
III, for example. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work out - somewhere between the
cheesy special effects and lame story the whole movie falls flat.
The plot involves criminal
mastermind Lex Luthor (again played by Gene Hackman) creating a supervillian
called Nuclear Man to get rid of Superman after he has gotten rid of all the
world's nuclear missiles.
The climactic battle
between Superman and Nuclear Man seems disjointed and drawn out - more
invented for spectacle than for any tension. Which would perhaps be fine if
the special effects were any better - but they aren't. In fact they suck.
What does help, however,
is the acting which is earnest and rather good. Let's face up to it: Christopher Reeve is
an excellent Clark Kent / Superman. Heck! He even looks like the comic book Superman!
Superman IV may
appeal to very small kids - but I think that even they will be disappointed with it.
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