Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
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What do a bad story, poor casting, a blantant ad for Atari in the middle, and bad SFX equal? This movie, which is the worst of the Supermans. Richard Pryors mugging doesn't help. Just a terrible film.
Horrible writing. Pathetic special effects even by 1983 standards. This was five years after Star Wars?!? Richard Pryor is literally a joke. An absolutely embarrassing Robert Vaughn performance. An affront to the first two Superman movies. This was the beginning of the end for this group of Superman movies. The TV series that I grew up with had more charm, wit, and passion than this drivel.
Superman is back.In my younger days I hated this film, in fact it made me angry as it seemed so bad compared to Sup 1 & 2, but in the last ten years I have started to warm to it...perhaps because it is so much better than TV's Smallville and Lois And Clark?There are some fine action scenes with Superman, I love the retro hardware in the cave (looks like it came from the batcave in 1960s Batman) and Robert Vaughn makes a fine bad guy.However, Superman 3 is not perfect, and you might find yourself clicking the DVD picture search when the film goes back to Smallville.But all things considered...not bad.
Superman III is the beginning of the end for the series since the next one completely killed the series for everyone. But is Superman 3 really that bad? No it's not sure it has a campy humor and one of the most strange opening credits i've ever seen but it's not that awful although it looks more like a Police Academy film without police officers and Superman in it. Lois Lane is mostly absent from the whole movie since we see her around 10 minutes in the beginning and the end of the film. Another big problem for me were the villains which they were pretty weak and Richard Pryor was the comic relief of the movie which it wasn't needed. I think a 4.9 is a little bit way too harsh at least a 6 would be good. Like i said Superman 3 isn't perfect but when Christopher Reeve turns into a bad Superman then this is were the greatness starts especially that Superman v.s Clark Kent fight is what really won me over. I give it a 8 out of 10 it's entertaining for what it is.
