Simply A Masterpiece

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Lame beyond belief, it's still slightly better than 3. Lex Luthor - who needs a rest by this time, did the producers forget every other villain superman fought? Creates and Anti-Superman, Nuclear man. Havoc ensues. Its nice that they tried to have an anti-nuclear weapons message, but it's lost in this silly, overblown movie.

Superman IV isn't exactly the finest moment in the Superman franchise. The effects are poor, the sets are cheap, the editing is choppy and the script doesn't make much sense. There is, however, some good stuff within this 1987 sequel that makes it better than other bad sequels. The Alexander Courage score is wonderful, dramatic and sweeping and really lifts the movie during the action sequences. Mariel Hemingway's character, the lovely Lacy Warfield is a fresh character that adds much to the production. She's very pretty too. Gene Hackman makes a welcome return as the camp Lex Luthor and he has some funny moments with his nephew, Lenny Luthor. The story has some good themes and messages but they seem to get lost within the incoherent nature of the structure. It's nowhere near as entertaining as the first, second or even third Superman flicks but it's still a charming little flick that could have been so much more. 6/10 from me.

For sure, the results is awful as the feat is impossible to get, even for a Superman! In the man of steel comics, you can find brilliant comics about a dark or stupid clone of Superman called Bizzaro! And you can also find other comics about Superman becoming internationally involved (like in the beautiful Peace on Earth in which he wants to eradicate starvation). Here, we have the two stories mixed together with Luthor being the conductor behind but the production just tears everything apart! Luthor is becoming a mere clown assisted by a rock and roll nephew??? There are a lot of scenes that doesn't make sense at all: sure it was the same for S3, but the entire movie was funny and the crazy things make laugh: here it's totally serious and those nonsense just don't fit: humans flying alone and even breathing in space, Supe rebuilding China wall with his eyes ! Clone is seeded by the sun and born as a talking adult with his costume neatly done (even with the chest N for Nuclear Man!) and I could go on: the scratches, the krypton crystal, … The effects are horrible: done 10 years after the first and the effects looks like a poor 50s B-movie: wires everywhere, moon space is a dark curtain (not even flat), same shots used in different parts…. And the final blow with a salvage editing: if I watched only the screen version, I rate it 1 because the elements of each plots don't make sense together. My dad DVD has deleted scenes and those lost 30 minutes helps the movie: the 1st dumb clone is not that bad and the race arms is much better told with the Kremlin and everything else! At the end, if this quest for peace was challenging, all the more than Supe had a view of the whole planet instead of saving Lois or a cat or a man drowning, this last Christopher movie is nonetheless a missed opportunity!

This movie makes me despise movies in general.This movie was made by a production company called Canon. They made terrible movies. (That's probably why they went out of business.) This movie lost the whole point of making a movie, it was just so confusing, losing plot points and characters, and all of the scenes in space made no sense. All of them! And the fight scenes in space look like two men in costumes having a wrestling match while floating in a void. And I won't even mention the fact about Superman's cape fluttering in space.This just wasn't a well thought out movie. It was like they were given a hundred dollars and told to make a movie. The green screen scenes were crap, and all of the flying scenes looked practically the same, because they were practically all the same! The people who made the movie were too lazy to make more than one flying scene, I am guessing. Or the production was being rushed.It seems that Lois Lane can defy gravity in this movie. Superman let go of her in one of the most terrible scenes-and she kept flying beside him. Unless she is an alien, like him.If IMDb had an official worst movies ever list- this should be number one.