Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1987
PG
1h 30m

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With the world on the brink of a nuclear war, Superman takes it upon himself to destroy all nuclear weapons. However, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man, a force strong enough to take down Super... Read allWith the world on the brink of a nuclear war, Superman takes it upon himself to destroy all nuclear weapons. However, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man, a force strong enough to take down Superman.With the world on the brink of a nuclear war, Superman takes it upon himself to destroy all nuclear weapons. However, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man, a force strong enough to take down Superman.

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IMDb RATING

3.7/10

54K

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POPULARITY

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Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations

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Trivia
Christopher Reeve publicly regretted his involvement in the film. He wrote in his memoir, "Superman IV was a catastrophe from start to finish. That failure was a huge blow to my career."

Goofs
(at around 1h 20 mins) Lacy Warfield is able to survive in space without a space suit.

Quotes
Superman: Once more, we have survived the threat of war and found a fragile peace. I thought I could give all the gift of the freedom from war, but I was wrong. It's not mine to give. We're still a young planet. There are galaxies out there. Other civilizations for us to meet and to learn from. What a brilliant future we could have. And there will be peace. There will be peace when the people of the world want it so badly that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them. I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it. Because when you really look at it, it's just one world.

Alternate versions
A whole sequence detailing Lex Luthor's creation and Superman's defeat of a prototype nuclear man was shot but never used. However, pictures from the scenes show up in publicity materials for the movie and it's detailed in the comic book adaption. Also shot but not used is a scene when Superman personally apologizes to the boy when he decides he can't rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Connections
Edited from Superman (1978)

Soundtracks
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
By Jerry Lee Lewis
Written by Curly Williams (uncredited) and Sunny David (uncredited)
Courtesy Charley Records

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A lot of promise and potential wasted

Its Supes versus Nukes for the fourth, much-derided Superman adventure often slated for its repressing low-budget, inferior special effects and a whole wad of plot holes and incoherence thanks no doubt to the extraction of a whole fifty minutes, much of the film's middle portion. Yet, among the wreckage are signs that there was a good film in here somewhere, as our hero struggles to decide whether or not to intervene in human history and the character's rather touching realisation that he is not just a visitor to Earth. A nicely-toned return to the Lois-Clark-Superman relationship also could have rooted the film back to its glorious predecessors - bar number three - but once Nuclear Man shows up and the film's story is cut in half, all promise and potential disappears from the project and the audience is left with a strictly mediocre re-tread of Superman II.