Superman IV: The Quest For Peace Sub Download
Julia Heaslet
Some goals are well-intentioned but too difficult for any one man, no matter how powerful, to achieve alone. The earth is our home, and we should do what we can to keep it from being destroyed. Go with your gut. Journalists are responsible for telling the truth to the public. When people want peace badly enough, they will force their leaders to give it to them.
Superman is a man of high morals and myriad powers who tries to help everyone in need and to wipe out evil wherever he encounters it. Lex Luther is a boastful, evil, and selfish man who thinks highly of himself. He has no hesitation about hurting others if it benefits him.
Luther and his henchmen want to sell black market nuclear weapons to the highest bidders. He creates an evil being with superpowers to match Superman's in the quest to destroy Superman. The two superguys battle it out in space, on the moon, over volcanoes, in a big city, and in other dangerous settings. There are multiple references to the violent destruction of Superman's home planet and the loss of his parents.
Parents need to know that this Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is No. 4 in the late-1970s-to-1980s movie series that featured the amiable Christopher Reeve as the 1930s cartoon superhero. Superman promises to rid the world of nuclear weapons, a task that proves beyond him, but it will raise the scary issue of possible world destruction for the young kids whom this movie targets. Superman fights an evil superbeing bent on the Man of Steel's destruction, and the ensuing growling, brawling, and explosions may frighten small children. There are multiple references to the violent destruction of Superman's home planet and the loss of his parents. Adults smoke cigars, and there's one "hell." Lacey does her best to seduce Clark Kent, hiking her short skirts to show her legs and pushing herself against him. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
Superman continues to fight evil and save those in need. When a schoolboy asks Superman (Christopher Reeve ) to rid the earth of nuclear weapons, Superman agrees. As he starts catching launched nuclear weapons mid-flight, Luther (Gene Hackman) plots to get rid of Superman with a newly created evil superbeing and then start selling black market nukes to the highest bidders. Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) continues to pine for Superman, and a newspaper publisher (Mariel Hemingway) puts the moves on an unresponsive Clark Kent.
Originally budgeted at $35 million, this movie had its funding cut by $20 million, resulting in terrible special effects and nonsensical plot points -- flaws that have not improved with age. Superman's mother's voice speaks to him at times, and one wonders why she does so with a British accent. It feels odd to criticize a cartoon for being cartoonish, but the hope is that movies based on comic books will transcend their origins when reformatted as big-screen adventures. This one doesn't even equal the thrill of the actual comic books. A woman is kidnapped and flown into space without an oxygen tank. How does she survive? The movie's heart seems to be in the right place -- nuclear proliferation and containment are important issues -- but it's laughable to think that Superman's plan is to collect nukes only when they're shot into space on missiles. What is his plan for all the weapons stockpiled on earth? Luther seems too goofy to be a truly evil genius, and one can't help but wonder why the police aren't looking for him as soon as he escapes from prison. Why doesn't Superman just grab him and fly him directly back into prison upon their first encounter? The answer is that such a move would end the movie before it even begins.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is the fourth film in the original Superman movie franchise and the final one to star Christopher Reeve as the title character. Suffering greatly from behind-the-scenes wrangling, budget cuts, and a heavy-handed, implausible script, the film was released to uniformly negative reviews and lackluster box office performance, to the extent that it was ignored by later films in the series. After a final disastrous test screening in Los Angeles, forty-five minutes of footage was cut in an attempt to streamline the plot and focus more on the big set-piece battles.[1]
We open on Clark Kent pondering his decision to sell the family farm in Smallville. Upon returning to Metropolis, Kent finds that the Daily Planet has been bought out by business tycoon David Warfield. Meanwhile, a nuclear crisis is looming between the world's superpowers, forcing Superman to grapple with the question of interference in human geopolitical affairs. Ultimately, he decides to intervene, working with all nations of the world to collect and destroy their nuclear missiles by hurling them into the sun. At the same time, Clark is working to fend off the advances of Lacey Warfield, the tycoon's daughter and new publisher of the Planet.
Lex Luthor, having been broken out of prison by his nephew Lenny, reacts to the newfound peace by setting himself up as a profiteer with the help of several shady international arms dealers. To protect their efforts (and, naturally, destroy Superman) Luthor also steals some of Superman's DNA and uses it to create an equally superpowered villain. This accounts for most of the cut footage, as Luthor's first attempt at a 'Nuclear Man' - an utter failure whom Superman easily defeats - was wholly excised from the film. Nuclear Man II is born when Luthor manages to attach the remaining Super-DNA to the last of the missiles heading into the sun. Thus also gifted with radioactive powers, the new NM manages to seriously wound Superman in their first battle.
Superman is able to recover using the last vestige of Kryptonian power that had been hidden on the farm and sets out to re-engage Nuclear Man, who in the interim has developed a fixation on Lacey - explained originally by the first NM having met her in a club. NM II, accordingly, kidnaps her into outer space (where she has no trouble breathing, and at one point is seen in freefall). Superman rescues her and manages to defeat Nuclear Man; he then delivers a speech to the world's powers regretting his decision to intervene and sees Luthor safely back behind bars. As a coda, former publisher Perry White triumphantly announces that he has managed to buy the Daily Planet back from Warfield.
Due to the overall negative reception of the film, there seems to be very little interest in releasing the complete original cut. However, a majority of the film's deleted scenes were included in 2006's Superman IV Deluxe Edition DVD.[1] The deleted scenes that have never been released in full still survive as screenshots, in scripts, and the film's novelization and comic book adaptation.
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