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That was an excellent one.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

"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.

It was nice seeing most of the original cast (from 1978) reprise their roles: Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor; Jackie Cooper - Perry White; Marc McClure - Jimmy Olsen; Margot Kidder - Lois Lane; and of course Christopher Reeve - Superman. This was to be their final outings in their respective roles in this iteration of Superman.Unfortunately, their presence alone was not enough to boost this movie both in story and at the box office. The Salkinds were no longer in charge. Instead, Golan-Globus and the Cannon Group were brought on to get this off the ground.The premise of this movie was a worthy one for our beloved hero: Superman wants to rid the world of nukes and his traditional arch-nemesis Lex Luthor had other plans to prevent that. Unfortunately, the Cannon Group and their writers couldn't make it interesting enough to draw audiences.While I enjoyed many of the flicks put on by the (now defunct) Cannon Group, it was apparent that superheroes and the Superman franchise were not their forte'. "Low budget" doesn't always equal low quality, but for this movie, unfortunately, the results were less-than-stellar.From what I gather, the Cannon Group was already in financial trouble when they took on the reins of the Superman series. This was a chance for them to start the road to recovery and make up for Superman III's dismal performance. They failed. Cannon continued their downward spiral and Superman IV did much worse than III.This was truly the end of the an era for Christopher Reeve's iteration of Superman, his fellow players who started in it and the original production company. While it was inevitable that the players for this iteration would no longer be playing those roles (as the years went by), it was sad to see their finale in these roles in this less- than-desirable chapter.

(Flash Review)This has a 3.6 IMDb score. That is very low. This movie wasn't that bad. Much better that Superman III. Sure the effects are below standards even for '87 but it was amusing and had all the components for a complete comic book story. Lois and Lex Luthor are back for the full movie and there is a corny and stereotypical villain with superpowers. There are some cheesy battles in the city and Superman, as a public service announcement storyline, declares he will rid the world of nuclear weapons. It was fun and I got what I expected, perhaps a notch below but it certainly wasn't terrible. And I finally finished off the Reeves Superman era!

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