A Silly and Short Addition

Rating: 6/10 (13 August 2015)

After iron man Drago (Dolph Lundgren), a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for fifteen pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
This is one of the shortest entries in the series. Cutting off the scenes added from part three, this is really only about 80 minutes. This is also the silliest up to this point; while Rocky seems a little less stupid, a robot is added to the family. A robot? Not that this is a bad movie, but it is a little light in the plot (even for a "Rocky" film) and seems to have been made purely to cash in on Cold War fervor. Strangely, despite that, it ages rather well and now becomes a bizarre nostalgia piece.