Superman IV – Die Welt am Abgrund (1987)

Superman IV – Die Welt am Abgrund: Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure. The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor’s latest creation, Nuclear Man.

“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 filmu0026#39;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 characteru0026#39;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 filmu0026#39;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.”