The best Rocky film

Rating: Null/10 (22 April 2005)

Rocky III is the franchises' best offering. Mr. T steals the show as heavyweight contender Clubber Lang who batters Sly early on in the film to win the world title. Cue a rematch in which Sly is out for revenge, and naturally annihilates his opponent after suffering implausible amounts of pain! The fighting is of course highly unbelievable but that's fine in Rocky III because it adds to its comic value. The movie does have a couple of stale moments, but overall its well worth seeing, if only for the look on Sly's face when his coach dies! Sly isn't very convincing in his portrayal of a man in anguish... Eye of the Tiger is a top theme tune, but the training scenes between Apollo and Sly needn't have been so camp.... On the whole however, Rocky III is not bad at all.