Useless !

Rating: 5/10 (6 February 2010)

It's not one of the worst movies ever made.. only. It's one of the movies that watching it equals not watching it!
This is, to its date, the most un-needed, pointless and silly Rocky movie. I can tell the story of it in maybe 5 seconds, and it won't amuse you either. Simply what makes the movie, any movie, is its conflict. This one got none. There is no character development, astonishing moment or even a good dialogue. It adds nothing to the character but a brain tumor. It adds nothing to the Russians but the same old stereotyping. And it adds nothing to us but a stupid waste of time!
So smart to make your opponent that inhuman. I was laughing, originally knowing that it's impossible to watch Rocky, as Mr. America, getting beaten by that Russian robot, and in the highest of the cold war's days. Hence it's dumbly predictable as well!
The performance hit a new degree of goofiness. For little instance, (Dolph Lundgren), who would be a master of uncountable V movies later, didn't do anything that bad in his entire life.
Specking about goofiness; look at (Stallone)'s little speech to the Russians at the end. And if you didn't like it, watch him wiping them off the face of the earth, 3 years later, in Rambo III. Now I know why (Ronald Reagan) loved being called Rambo, not Rocky!
But even if, (Stallone), as a writer / director / star of the show, wanted Rocky to go east, to do what he had to do, teaching these communists a lesson, yet with class, assuring his message of peace (and I mean the sport's one, Not America's!). However, just the characterization of the Russians assures how *objective* and *peace loving* (Stallone) was from the start!
The movie's elements got nothing remarkable. I didn't find something to enjoy, rather to watch. It's pretty average, and with the mentality of it, as a commercial movie or a message one, it's weak and useless. By the way, it's my first time ever to call a movie useless. But this one earns it!