My prediction... mostly entertaining.

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2003)

**1/2 out of ****
The third installment in the Rocky series is an entertaining one, but it's apparent that almost all of the heart of the first two movies is gone. This is a bigger, slicker, and more formulaic Rocky movie. It begins with, to the song "Eye Of The Tiger", a montage showing us Rocky successfully defending his title and at the same time, letting fame go to his head. He is, soon enough, brought down from his cloud by number one contender Clubber Lang, well played by Mr.T in his first movie role. Soon tragedy befalls Rocky, inside the ring and outside, and the only man who can help him is his old nemesis Apollo Creed. Once again, almost everyone from the previous one is back, with a humorous cameo from Hulk Hogan, but this time around they don't seem as into it and sort of run through the motions. And once again, Sylvester Stallone writes and directs, with weaker results in both areas. Also, some of the directing suggests that Sly was watching too many psychological thrillers at the time this movie was made.