Batman V Superman: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

17. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace

Superman IV is a cheap-as-f*ck movie. Cannon, the discount production studio that got the rights from the Salkinds, are so notorious for their cost-cutting there's been a movie made about them, and The Quest For Peace is the fake jewel in their plastic crown. It is quite possibly the worst edited movie of all time, the story a bunch of vaguely connected threads interspersed with Powerpoint level animation and the big battles between Superman and the hastily created Nuclear Man nothing more than clunky. Most of the actors are clearly back for the paycheck, yet despite acknowledging the result would be terrible, Christopher Reeve is still a pitch perfect - if slightly more caricaturish - Superman (even if he has to suffer through an unfunny double date as Clark Kent and Supes). It's just a shame the actor's obsession with nuclear disarmament got in the way of an interesting story; when Lois describes Clark Kent as a grown-up boy scout, she shouldn't be also encapsulated his super alter-ego and the performer playing them. The only thing that makes it oh-so-slightly more bearable than its Gotham-based counterpart (and even then, only by a Super-hair's breadth) is that its cynicism is slightly less toxic. Superman IV is a cheap-as-f*ck movie, but it knows it.