Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.
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What critics compared Superman IV: The Quest for Peace to
Because sometimes it’s handy to have, if I were to compare 1984 to any other superhero story, it would be a mix of Batman Returns (1992) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
She also evokes the sub-par effects and Kumbaya tone of “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.”
Recycling the formula which seemed to work for Gal Gadot’s 2017 introduction to Diana Prince, for all the subtexts and emotional resonance conveyed the first time around, her return is as empty an spectacle as the beaten down baubles of other franchise properties delivered in the decade in which it’s set (the disappointment is something akin to the cut corner of 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace , a dismissed Sidney J. Furie property)—though this was likely not the aim of its creators, who many have already hailed as the heroic, escapist salve needed at the tail end of one of the planet’s bleakest years in, at least, the digital age.
It's like watching the unfortunate "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" trade-in its action bonafides for a strident ideological dirge.
…why have the climax showcasing Superman in a fight with a cloned version of himself when that very idea stank up the ending of SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE in 1987?
…when Superman IV: The Quest for Peace flopped critically and commercially, it was time to give the character a 20-year rest…
This makes Superman, starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, the second-shortest Superman movie ever, after Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, which ran for just 90 minutes.
Iron Man, on the other hand, is closer to a blockbuster mechanism, having been made with wide-ranging receipts in mind: There are detonations and brown-skinned targets for hawks, disarmament lip-service (shades of Superman IV!) for doves, and Robert Downey, Jr. transforming the Marvel Comics original into Irony Man for critics.
The worst Superman movie since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Man of Steel follows Henry Cavill's Clark Kent as he struggles to find his place in a world that's not his own - with the character's existential musings interrupted by the arrival of a vicious Kryptonian warlord (Michael Shannon's Zod) bent on world domination.
Only Superman IV: The Quest for Peace keeps it from being the worst Superman movie ever.
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The worst Superman movie since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Man of Steel follows Henry Cavill's Clark Kent as he struggles to find his place in a world that's not his own - with the character's existential musings interrupted by the arrival of a vicious Kryptonian warlord (Michael Shannon's Zod) bent on world domination.
Yes, Man of Steel is inches away from becoming the Captain Planet movie nobody wanted, or the Superman IV redux everyone fears.