Superman 4 - The Quest For Peace [VHS] [1987]: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, Mark Pillow, Mariel Hemingway, Damian McLawhorn, William Hootkins, Jim Broadbent, Sidney J. Furie, Graham Easton, Menahem Golan, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal: Amazon.co.uk: Video

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Sad end to an excellant franchise, 6 Jan 2007

By	A Reviewer "John" (Kircudbright) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)

For all those familliar with the quality of the 3 previous movies then this film will become a bit of a shock.
From the moment the beginning credits start to roll, you sense that there is something badly wrong. The credits try mimic the title sequence of the preceding movies but in a less effective and evidently cheaper fashion, this sadly foreshadows what is to come.
Everything about this film, apart from the performers, reek of bargain basement.
For a movie that is just turning 20 years old, the special effects are awful. Long gone are the cutting edge effects of the previous movies. When Superman is in flight it is either an extremely poorly matted Christopher Reeve nearly static flying through badly shot background footage. Or we have him flying with painfully obvious wire showing. Worst still, an obvious doll is substituted in some scenes.
Although it's meant to be set in America it's obviously been filmed in the UK. Tight close up shots and a scattering of American cars and signs attempt to disguise this without success.
I am a huge fan of Christopher Reeve's performance as Clark Kent and Superman and it is sad to know that this was his swansong in the part. He and the rest of the cast deserved better.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Cut-Price Superman, 14 Aug 2006

By	Imagez Crisis "rossky4" (Plymouth,United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)

With new producers, the director of the Ipcress File, all the principal players back and the leading man co-writing the script here was an opportunity to erase the terrible memories of the third film and come up with a return-to-form.

What a waste. The rumour is that only half the budget Cannon Films/Golan/Globus were given to make this fourth instalment was actually used. So instead of a big epic Donner-like revival of the Superman franchise, you get a film which feels like an above-average tv movie.

There are pluses. Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman make the film come alive when they are on screen and Margot Kidder's Lois Lane is as gorgeous as ever. Also the attempt to make the film relevant to what was still a very real concern regarding the arms race is a brave one.

And that is it as far as the pluses go. Jon Cryer as Lex Luther's dimwitted nephew is annoying, Mark Pillow's Nuclear Man is a cardboard cut-out and Metropolis has been reduced to stock footage of New York and actual footage of an industrial estate in Milton Keynes.

The one major set piece on a Metropolis street is ok but not thrilling and the special effects just don't match up to the original film which was filmed nearly a decade earlier.

A film with a big heart is destroyed by plastic effects and poor editing, knocking the franchise back twenty years in the process. If there is such a thing as the fabled Superman `curse' than it had a field day with this movie.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Up Up and fall flat your face, 6 Sep 2004

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This review is from: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)

Well even though christopher reeves is one of my childhood hero's, and also that no one else could of played superman apart from him.This film really pays utter disrespect to christopher and his fans,don't get me wrong the story he had writen was good enough to see the film through.But guys the effects where sub standard and a dissapointment to watch,for god sakes the effects in the first superman film where better and that was made in 1978.Cannon films really ripped the heart out of the franchise and left the public forgetting superman,and now 17 years latter we are still waiting for the new flick which keeps going through development hell.Well when ever superman returns back to our screens,please let it be for the right reasons and not the wrong one's.

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4.0 out of 5 stars not great but deserves som cred
this film is a bad attempt to a superman movie but im sorry after watching superman 3 this seems an academy award winner this isn't as bad as you'd think at least lex luthor is... Read more

Published 22 months ago by D. Robinson

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely appaling film.
I am amazed that anyone could give this film more than 1 star when it doesn't really deserve that. This film is a bit like the movie equivalent of finding a fallen man in the road... Read more

Published on 15 Feb 2005 by Ian Nind

2.0 out of 5 stars A big dissapointment
After the first 3 films you would of thought that the last would be a bit special. It is in fact the worst out of them all by a long way. Read more

Published on 30 Jul 2004 by Kevin Mackenzie

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid at all costs!!
How can anyone say this movie is anything but dire? Superman I and II are possibly my favourite movies ever, but III and IV make me want to weep! Read more

Published on 16 Jan 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice effort, but more a story that's never gets started
Superman IV, the last of the Christopher Reeve installments is a large disapointment. The movie lacks the budget of 1 and 2 and the scripts. Read more

Published on 20 Mar 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Superman video yet an 1987 4 time oscar winner!
Superman 4 is an all time favourite in the world of superheroes and action men. The film is about a mild mannerded new reporter called Clark Kent. Mr. Read more

Published on 20 Jan 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent end to the series
Superman 4 had heart and it had a nice easy to follow storyline combined with great acting from the 5 most important stars Reeve,Hackman,Kidder, Cooper,and McClare. Read more

Published on 5 Sep 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars The Quest for Decent Villains, more like
The Christoper Reeve Superman series took a nosedive with this last instalment, which sees the Man of Steel up against his most pathetic foe to date, Nuclear Man. Read more

Published on 15 Mar 2000 by Ben Elliss

3.0 out of 5 stars Really poor end to what was before a great trilogy
Was there any need for Superman 4? Our hero had beaten the forces of injustice between here and Krypton so why take on a Nuclear powered Dolph Lundgren? Read more

Published on 8 Mar 2000

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