No Pain! No Pain!

Rating: 7/10 (14 July 2004)

This is by no means the best of the series, and compared to the originality of the first film especially i admit it is disappointing, but the only reason this isn't considered great is because the previous three were so good! So that doesn't make it all that bad at all! In fact it is good!!! I really enjoyed this, yes the fight is a bit OTT but thats Rocky your supposed to suspend a bit of belief during the fifteen rounds of Rocky's fights, besides if all the Rocky films were 'realistic' then his fights would be ten rounds of hugging each other followed by a corrupt judges decision... not much fun at all. And besides Rocky IV has the most stirring film moment ever, the training with Apollo's trainer in the barn and out in the snow, in contrast to Dragos high tech, drug induced training is awesome, and if you don't feel like powering out some push ups as he screams NO PAIN then i pity you! Watch it, enjoy it, don't judge it by the first one and just let Rocky entertain you again!
* He's made of iron!*