" box office flop ". The film was also subject to harsh reviews from critics. Roger Ebert stated that "Ishtar is a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy"; [ 158 ] Gene Siskel called it "shockingly dull" and "dim-witted"; [ 159 ] and together they selected it as the worst film of 1987 on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies . [ 160 ] The film was nominated for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay in the 8th Golden Raspberry Awards , winning one for Worst Director. San Jose Mercury News claimed that "Time has not improved this film's reputation as being one of the worst ever made." [ 161 ] Time Out suggested it was "so bad it could have been deliberate" and called it "one of the worst films ever made", [ 162 ] while Hot Air referred to it as "The Citizen Kane of big-budget, A-list vehicular homicides." [ 163 ] It was included in Michael Sauter's The Worst Movies of All Time book [ 126 ] and Richard Roeper included it on his list of the 40 worst films he had seen. [ 164 ] In 1999 Time placed the film on a list of the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century. [ 165 ] Superman IV was the last film in the Christopher Reeve series of Superman films and co-starred Mark Pillow as the villain Nuclear Man. Panned by fans and critics alike, it is the lowest-grossing film in the