Ben Meyers’ rating: 3.7|5.0
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Superman IV: The Quest for
Peace—not enough WOW! factor to garner a 4-star rating—continues to
feature Christopher Reeve as Superman. This film returns with Gene Hackman as Luthor and adds Jon Cryer as his nephew Lenny. The movie works at the okay to suitable level. This is Reeve's s last attempt to interpret Superman. The 2006 film Superman Returns has a new actor for the role of Superman.
Film Poster Courtesy of Wikipedia
Storyline
Superman
as Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) returns to Smallville after his mother dies
and tries to save the farm from a mall development. He returns to Metropolis
and finds that the world is possibly going to nuclear war. He wonders what he
should do and seeks help from the spirits of his Krypton parents. They
advise him not to interfere with Earth’s problems and to seek another planet where
the law is ‘no war.’ He thinks about this advice, decides against it, goes to
the United Nations General Assembly, and talks about eliminating nuclear weaponry.
He then travels into space, captures launched nuclear weapons into a large net and swings them into deep space. The old enemy Lex Luthor becomes involved and
the story is on as good battles evil.
Additional Thanks
Fair
Work for Director Sidney J. Furie. Thank you to Executive Producer Michael J.
Kagan for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Lex
Luthor/voice of Nuclear Man (Gene Hackman), Perry White (Jackie Cooper), Jimmy
Olsen (Marc McClure), Lenny (Jon Cryer), David Warfield (Sam Wanamaker),
Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow), Lacy Warfield (Mariel Hemingway), Lois Lane (Margot
Kidder), Jeremy (Damian McLawhorn), Harry Howler (William Hootkins), and Jean
Pierre Dubois (Jim Broadbent).
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
Maybe. Not much new here other than the addition of Nuclear Man.
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