A Prequel For Creed II

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2017)

Rocky Balboa faces a Soviet boxer in Ivan Drago in this fourth film of the Rocky movie franchise.Sylvester Stallone stars and reprises his role as Rocky together with Talia Shire,Burt Young,Carl Weathers and Tony Burton - all mainstays of the Rocky movie franchise - together with Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago and Stallone's ex- wife,Brigitte Nielsen as Drago's wife.
The film was obviously an 80's film representing cheese and commercialism by adding themes of Cold War against the Soviet Union together with the use of technology in development of superior athletes like Drago in addition to the underdog theme which Rocky has gain popularity from particularly the first film,Rocky I.It definitely provided fun and entertainment and one could classify it as purely a sports film or an action film which Stallone is known for like Rambo and Expendables.
As far as drama is concerned, there is nothing really new except the underdog theme that Rocky has gained popularity from especially when Rocky faces Ivan Drago at his hometown in Soviet Union and to basically avenge the death of Apollo Creed,his best friend and former opponent in Rocky I and Rocky II. One could consider it as possibly the weakest movie of the Rocky movie franchise then until the fifth Rocky or Rocky V was made because of it.
But nevertheless,I think that it remains enjoyable,fun and entertaining especially if one is not to expect a classic or a masterpiece like Rocky I and Rocky II or probably for some,Creed.Added to that,it a good movie to watch before watching Creed II considering that it was reported while this review is written that Dolph Lundgren will reprise his role of Ivan Drago in it.That second Creed movie has a good prequel in Rocky IV.