YOU WILL LOSE......about twenty quid if you buy the dvd.

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2001)

I have to admit that i own this on video(I didn't ask for it,my mother brought it home one day,years ago in fact,allthough i kind of liked it at the time.)but having watched this again the other day,having not seen it in ages,I realised what a dumb,racist,cheese fest it is.
The acting is uninspired with stalone acting with his pecks as allways. Wheathers is cocky as hell as allways(thank god he gets killed in this one). shire is bland as allways. And young is anoying.....as allways. there's just no suprises what so ever. And the less said about lundgren,(in his acting debut)the evil red commie scum,the opponent which rocky has to beat,the better.
stalone who wrote and directed this crass abomination just patches together a series of baywatch style music video moments(for when they run out of plot). Lame,badly chrographed fight scene's. And training scene's that disturbingly verge on homo erotic fantasy. Also rocky's everybody can change speech at the climax will make you cringe. But probally the most amusing scene in the film(unintenional that is)is when rocky has a conversion with his son before he goes of to russia(watch the kids face).
The public had enough after this one(rocky 5 sunk like a stone at the box office compared to this one)and it was this one that proved to be a big part in rocky's downfall. The downfall to one of the most boring film series ever. Only the original is worth watching.
**/***** two stars out of five