Good Movie, Terrible Soundtrack

Rating: 5/10 (20 October 2007)

Brought back memories of the Cold War. This movie gave us another good reason to hate the commies. Drago made Clubber Lang look like Mr. Rogers.
As usual, this movie had the standard, inspiring Rocky fare, the go-get-'em speeches, the never-say-die attitude. This movie, like all the Rocky movies, are inspiring enough to raise a dead horse. It made me sad and angry to see Apollo get killed fighting Drago. I wanted to get in the ring with Drago myself when that scene was over. Paulie is his usual annoying self, and I think at one point, we have a slight mistake in plot logic. When Rocky and his entourage go to the Soviet Union for Rocky to train, Paulie makes his patented wisecracks. I kept expecting those Russians escorting them to either shoot him or send him somewhere unpleasant, as would have happened in real life back then.
What I miss from this movie is Bill Conti's GONNA FLY NOW. Instead, we've got some eighties technogarbage that they're trying to pass off as music. For the music alone (and in this case, I use that term loosely), I knock five stars off of what is otherwise a good movie. 5 out of 10.