He's not getting killed....He's getting mad!...

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2014)

Rocky Balboa enjoys the life he has as world-champion. But unbeknown to him, he only fights against opponents hand-picked by his manager Mickey.
He is challenged by the Clubber Lang. Rocky accepts the challenge to prove once more that there is only one champion.
But Lang wins, and becomes the new champion. Nobody believes in Rocky anymore, except for former opponent Apollo Creed.
As Creed tries to stimulate the fighting spirit and get Rocky back in top-form, it is now up to Rocky to get his edge back.....
The third Rocky film took a wonderful turn for the series, made the movies into nothing more than a string of montages and fights.
It's more comic book than the previous two instalments, and it works in three parts.
Rocky gets defeated.
Rocky trains.
Rocky fights.
And these are the three act rules that the film follows, and what the following films followed as well.
The film is written effortlessly, like Stallone was printing out money, and kudos to him for bringing his real life into the story, as he celebrity life reflected the first act.
Lang is good, but nothing more than a screaming little boy, but these films know how to pull the heart strings, and also how to get the blood pumping, this is why repeated viewings of part three and four (or III and IV), never get boring, especially if you are of a certain age.
Brilliant stuff.