A great boxing movie

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2015)

Continuing my reviews for all the rocky films see me review rocky 4. The premise of the film is that after the death of a close friend he decides to go to Russia to challenge an almost invincible opponent. Sylvester Stallone is back as rocky and he does a good job in this film selling the personal anguish in his character and you understand why he needs this fight. Carl weathers is back as Apollo creed and even though not a huge role he does a good job in this film. This film was Dolph lundgrens break out role as Ivan drago and he was great as the robotic giant and it really worked. However, I thought that the return of Adrian and Paulie didn't come across that well in this film and could have been missing from this film completely. The overall story is pretty emotional and a great dramatic tale of redemption. However, especially towards the start it does feel rushed and a bit like a chunk of the film is missing. The script has some really good drama in it and allot of well placed humour involved. The style of the film is great, the boxing scenes are high impact and filmed brilliantly, same as the well placed training montage. Overall this is a great rocky movie that I would definitely advise seeing.