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Superman III

Cast

Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure View All


Crew

David Newman (Screenplay), Richard Lester (Director), Leslie Newman (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 17th, 1983
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
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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Iroquois
Superman III, on the other hand, is an overly long piece of dreck that offers up the odd spot of amusing silliness (such as a missile-targeting system that resembles a computer game or Pryor skiing off the roof of a skyscraper and surviving) but is mostly a dull and charmless piece of work.
Gideon58
As for the rest of the film, Lester and the screenwriters seem to be trying to revive the spirit of Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor with this Ross Webster character but Vaughn never really captures the spirit of what going on here and neither does Pryor, who has never been less funny, in an odd character ....
The Rodent
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