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3.2 Rating?

posted 9 years ago by danstevon
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Ok it's a little corny and the sfx aren't great but it's better than a 3.2 surely?

The material is overly familiar, the whole anti-nuke plot as banal as it gets and the Nuclear Man's a terrible invention (especially as portrayed by that blond thug... one can hardly even call it "acting"), but otherwise I didn't find it that much worse than the first two films. Plenty cheesy for sure, but so were those earlier ones. Rated it 5/10 (although, on a second thought, I should probably lower it by a notch for the absolutely godawful special effects - these green screen shots would have perhaps... perhaps... been acceptable in the 1950's, but certainly not in 1987).

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[–] kaydie-fee 9 years ago

The rating is too low, this film is not great but it is watchable, the acting is ok and it does have a certain cheesy charm. I think it would be better with the deleted scenes added back in, especially the tornado scenes and the scenes with Clark and Lacey.

[–] keitho8622 9 years ago

Deserves much higher. All the Reeves Supermans got a bum deal on score.

[–] Ashaod43 8 years ago

Im sure we have all seen a lot worse. I know I have. Sure this was cheap and you could really see that they needed more money in this production. The story idea wasn't bad, just had a internal fighting because of trying to film a movie knowing halfway through this vision if a film was going to suck because of cash flow and a studio going out or business. Most of the production and acting was "phoned in" because everyone probably gave up while making it. You will never make a good movie with that formula.