June 13, 2010

Superman IV: the Quest for Peace (1987).

The last of the Christopher Reeve's Superman movies is the worst. It has a promissing beggining but it turns into a dull entertainment and ends in pure boredom. Producers changed and it was a failure at the theaters. It costed more than it gained.

Superman saves a group of astronauts and recovers a part of Kripton. His mother tells him that this new power source could be used once to accomplish a great task.

Then the war between USA and USSR is inminent, so he intervenes, taking all nuclear missiles and sending it to the sun. In the explosion, a replic of Superman is created: Nuclear Man.

Lex Luthor uses that twin Superman to fight the real one and in the end Superman wins by confining Nuclear Man into a Nuclear plant. And that's all. Not much around.

The idea of Superman intervening so directly was well developed in Superman: Peace on Earth in 1999.

We have to wait two decades to see Superman Returns. And suffer with the tragic ending of beloved Christopher Reeve. We'll never forget him.