one of the most entertaining films ever made

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 1999)

The Rocky films are excellent. And as much as I like the drama of the first two I have to admit that I love the sheer exhiliration of part 3 and 4. I love this film.
Mr. T. is a bad-ass villain. When you move on from the original story and take away all that Apollo Creed was to Rocky, you have to present the audience with more danger than the other films had. And early on you learn to hate Clubber Lang simply for the fact that he wants to take away what Rocky has. If you can create hatred for a character even though he is not a bad man, that is good writing. Clubber Lang is the embodiment of hate even though what he represents is will, determination, an insatiable desire for fame and greatness and to win the heavyweight boxing title. How do you hate a character like that? Well for one, you make him grunt and spit his words out like venom. You make him snarl and use words like "sucka" and phrases like " pity the foo". And you have to give Mr. T. credit for portraying the role as well as he did.
Rocky III is as high on the entertainment scale as you can go and the only film that supercedes it in terms of wanting the underdog to win at all costs, is Rocky IV. This is a great film!