...let's just get this over with.
Plot: America and Soviet Russia are on the brink of nuclear war. And after receiving a letter written by a concerned schoolboy and some advice from Lois Lane, Superman come up with the plan to rid the entire world of nuclear weapons. At the same time, the Daily Planet is taken over by a tabloid tycoon named David Warfield who make his daughter Lacy the new editor. The changes upset the employees of the Planet including Lois, but to top it all, Lacy for some reason becomes interested in seducing Clark Kent. Meanwhile Lex Luthor escapes and decides to take his revenge on Superman once and for all by creating a superhuman named Nuclear Man.
Now to be fair, I liked the general kind of story that they more or less made as a whole. At least with it specifically being once again about Superman fighting Lex Luthor and someone that also has superhero strength that is trying to best him. Believe it or not, I personally kind of liked this movie better then the last one in a sort of putting up with the bad stuff kind of way. Because despite just about everything else I'm going to say about it, they still went back to giving us Lois Lane, Lex Luthor and some other super villain and other stuff that are what we generally want in a Superman movie unlike Superman III. So in a twisted way, I kind of needed to see this movie after the third one and I'd like to imagine some fans might've needed it too in the same demented way back when this film was in theaters. But despite how pleasant The Quest For Peace might have slightly been because of what happened on a grand scale, it's still a horrid piece of crap as a film. In fact we are actually talking about a film that is so bad that even the guy the played Superman in the first four film, Christopher Reeve regretted making it. He openly said that "Superman IV was a catastrophe from start to finish. That failure was a huge blow to my career." What could have happened that was so bad? Ugh, where do I start? Well the whole plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons makes no sense. When Superman announces this to the United Nations, everyone acted okay this, and yet people still kept on firing missiles. There's several other things wrong with that, but I think the biggest one seems to be at just how unrealistic it is that they are letting Superman go with this plan. Also the put way to much with the story. I mean on my plot paragraph, I mentioned three things that more or less happen in this movie and they do not balance out at all. In fact there are a couple other plot devices (if you can call them that) that I didn't mention that are just thrown in at random points in the movie and once they are gone, they are never seen again. The effects and the editing are also terrible with flying scenes that you can easily tell are poorly done and there are shots that are either reused or fast forward or re-winded at certain points in the movie. And there are a whole bunch of plot holes that would take too long to explain.
And that's my review for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. You might appreciate the fact that it's Superman fighting Lex Luthor and other super villains like I did after seeing the third movie, but other then that, you are left with a dumb plot that has too many side stories, some of which go nowhere, terrible effects and editing, and is altogether a terrible movie that I would not recommend in the slightest.
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