Please somebody announce an Ivan Drago movie already!

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2019)

Huge Rocky fan here for the past 30+ years. This movie is not so bad, but being not so bad is not fair for anything Rocky related. First, the movie lacks in explaining (for ppl who don't know much about the Rocky universe) why Drago's son is feared besides being big. I don't remember now but I think we don't even have the name Apollo cited in the whole movie (maybe once). How come? Then, the reason for a second fight against Drago's son is almost non existent, being that an essential formula for the "big fight" in any of the Rocky films along the past decades. Then, along the movie we get the feeling that the main character is a weak unconfident and scared guy, totally different from the first movie and shows NOTHING of Rocky's or Apollo's characteristics. At the scene where we had Drago sitting in front of Rocky to have a talk I got so disappointed because Rocky just ignored everything Ivan said and went away, instead of replying back and give that moral lesson (see Rocky 6) that every Rocky movie has always granted us. When you are watching this you think you are watching a Rocky 4/for millenials because there is the whole "they want you to fight in Russia" thing but their training is in Arizona desert and you only know they are in Russia when the fighters are already in the ring. No snow, no planes landing on a different country, no reporters, no environmental scenes. Everybody knew yeah that Apollo's son would win the second fight, but why Ivan threw the towel to stop the fight? Apollo's son hadn't even finalized the guy yet, or had he? LoL. So many discrepancies on this I would never expect. Please please somebody announce an Ivan Drago movie!