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Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2008)

Although that said I'm sure that some smart Alec will go and fill the plot synopsis now, but prior to that, this was appropriate.
This for me is the bigger weak link in the series than Rocky V as Rocky V is the first attempt for the Rocky series to get back on track and end the series with some self respect. If the series had ended with Rocky IV then the entire series would have ended in disgrace, like the road to films with Hong Kong and the Dirty Harry films with the Dead Pool.
The film starts in a bizarre fashion with Rocky giving Pauly a giant robot that he somehow seems to reprogram to have a sexy woman's voice. Rocky starts out as his usual amiable self, before Apollo's death turns him into a mono-syllabic machine for the second half of the movie. Drago is a cliché of a character that has about as much realism as the city background of most studio newsrooms.
"If he dies, he dies!" When on earth has any boxer ever been like this. Any self respecting boxer knows the risks but would never wish that on anyone, and usually those that do kill in the ring lose their edge (Maybe that's why Rocky really won? Because Drago was pulling his punches? Hey there is some depth to the film after all?)
The only upside to the film is that in spite of the ridiculous nature of the entire film and it's awful comparison with the first movie is that it is entertaining, in a really awful eighties way. It's like Rocky does 80's MTV.
The only interesting thing about the film is that in the end when Rocky acts as a metaphor for world peace and it seems ridiculous, it is worth bearing in mind that it was only a couple of years later the soviet block collapsed.
Coincidence? Mikey B