A New Opponent--from the Soviet Union

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2016)

After managing to recapture his heavyweight championship belt from "Clubber Lang" (Mr. T) in the previous movie, "Rocky Balboa" (Sylvester Stallone) doesn't feel he has anything further to prove. Unfortunately, his friend and rival, "Apollo Creed" (Carl Weathers) doesn't share that same feeling and as a result he jumps at the chance to fight a new boxer from the Soviet Union named "Drago" (Dolph Lundgren). Although he is making the transition from amateur to professional, Drago isn't a typical athlete. Instead, he is a product of both legal and illegal scientific enhancements that have made him into a super-fighting machine capable of destroying anybody who gets into the ring with him. And he wants to prove just how great he is by fighting the heavyweight champion of the world-Rocky Balboa. The only thing standing in his way is Apollo Creed. Now as far as this movie is concerned I will just say that--in spite of the three other films that preceded it-this picture manages to stand on its own. As a matter of fact, it probably has more action than the previous movies which certainly doesn't hurt it in any way. Unfortunately, what did hurt this movie, in my opinion, was the corny speech at the end which would be laughable if it wasn't meant to be taken so seriously. Be that as it may, the majority of the movie was decent enough and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.