Remember the amazing 80's.....

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2015)

As artificial as film boxing can be, it peaked here. Yes, the IV fight with Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago ) is as incredible as these RIII fights. No, the strength of the Rocky sequels is not the boxing, it's in the struggle with personal life, and the before-and-after fight scenes, that Stallone lifts up his Rocky Balboa with some good acting sometimes. But he obviously thought that the audience wanted an always coming back-machine, who securely would punch out an 8 feet alien monster if he just gets "mad enough", in Paulie's words.
No, I think the balance in this movie is brought by Carl Weathers, who's Apollo Creed gets nice to his former antagonist, and wants the newcomer Clubber Lang (well played by Laurence Tureaud/Mr. T) to smell the floor, and therefore puts his skills into slugger Rocky, and gets a rough piece of rock into a sharp diamond, but of course not without some motivation trouble on the way....
Well, back in -82 this was surely a smash hit at the cinemas, but the Rocky series was sadly turned into too much way-out fiction. The fights of the two first movies are nice, the one in Rocky II has some very good choreography and directing, and the same last man standing sense that of the first.
But after a bad episode V in 1990, Stallone waited 16 years and gave us some little more realism in the Rocky Balboa of 2006. Thank you for that, Sly.