2karl- I gave this film 8/10 1hr 31 mins directed and written and starsSylvester Stallone whch he plays to his all american hero After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition matchand he wants , Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge. this is still his biggest grossing film Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $300,400,000 this one followed him to moscow at the time of the hight of the soviet cold war and rocky was fighting not only a man but an ideology it was a fight to the finish struggle for freedom loving americans and an opressive soviet union . agains stallone tapped into the power of his country and became a big hit After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition matchand he wants to rip apart rocky he went to russia to find himself his way in the wildnerness an old fashioned trainning programme lifting logs running in the snow away from his russian bodyguards he would have mad micky proud against dolph lundgren techno training After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition matchand he wants with a soundtrack to his training with No Easy Way Out

gridoon2018 Virtually the same movie as "Rocky III", with a better (and longer) climactic fight, but Dolph Lundgren, although physically intimidating, is a wooden log in terms of personality in comparison to Mr.T. Stallone's screenplay is formulaic to the extreme, and often ridiculous (how can anyone last 15 rounds with a man who supposedly has three times the punching power of the average heavyweight? As for the Russian crowd chanting "Rocky! Rocky!", yeah, sure...), but as a director he keeps the film speeding like a runaway locomotive, and the editing is sometimes exhilaratingly masterful. Killer - and timeless - 1980s soundtrack. **1/2 out of 4.

John austin Leave it to Hollywood to take a good concept and run it right into the ground. Rocky IV is even more overblown than Rocky III, which, while being a fairly decent movie, was a monument to everything that was tacky about the 1980s.You'll get the idea here pretty quick. Rocky vanquished all the domestic competition in the first three movies, so now he has to take on a Russian superfighter, a communist giant with no conscience and trained with cutting edge, high-tech 1980s Soviet boxing methods. (This movie came out during abrief period in history when there was a popular belief that the Soviet Union possessed advanced scientific training methods that enabled them to beat the rest of the world in Olympic sports. After awhile we all figured out they were just shooting everyone up with enormous amounts of steroids). By the fourth movie, Rocky is little more than a flawed, rough edged boxing themed superhero, and the whole thing has degenerated from Oscar caliber material to action movie status. It looks real good, I'll give it that. They spent lots of money on it. But if you watch the original Rocky and then watch this, you'll just be depressed with where they decided to go with the thing.

Richard Dominguez My Favorite Of The 6 Rocky Movies ... When This Movie First Came Out Everyone Knew Without Watching The Movie That Rocky Wins ... I Couldn't Understand Why They Would Give Away The Ending Like That ... Then When I Saw The Movie I Understood That They Had Given Nothing Away ... That This Movie Is So Much More Than About A Boxing Match ... I Can't Go Into Every Nuance Of Things I Love About This Movie, There Are Simply Way Too Many Things To List ... Suffice It To Say That Rocky IV Is An Emotional Ride Through A Universe Of Feelings ... Well Written And Executed I Would Have Thought It Was A Best Selling Novel ... From Apollo's Insistence That When "This 'Is Over" Rocky Would Understand To Rocky's Son Repeating Back Into The Television "I Love You" In My Opinion The Best Written Rocky Of All ... The Acting Was Great If Not Oscar Worthy But With The "Heart" That This Movie Carries (As Far As I Am Concerned) The Academy Can Keep It's Award ... There's Just So Much I Want To Say About This Movie