THE BEST OF THE SERIES

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2002)

Rocky IV is the best of all the Rocky films. Granted, Rocky III was good with the fight scenes between Sly and Mr. T, but Rocky II was simply Sly training for a rematch with Apollo Creed and Rocky V was just predictable. The best scene in the film is the final battle between Rocky and Drago. Rocky enters the arena in Moscow with thousands of Russian spectators booing him, but when Drago enters, they play this sound over the loudspeakers that sounds like an air raid siren, and then we hear the playing of the Soviet national anthem (they had some very good singers in that crowd). When they play the anthem, you just can't help but stand up and be caught in the moment.
Perhaps Sly and Brigiette Nielsen's marriage didn't last long because she always had eyes for Dolph Lundgren.