God help me, I do love it so.

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2005)

Okay, Rocky IV is one of the cheesiest movies ever. Cheesy dialogue, cheesy music, and cheesy predictable plot. With all this said, I can't turn my eyes away from it. I've seen this movie before, but I saw it on TV the other night and I watched for a solid hour. I caught myself feeling very nervous for poor underdog Rocky against the burly Commie. I caught myself being riled up as Rocky was training to the back-beat of god-awful 80s pump-up music. This is a scary feeling, but I bet everyone has these feelings. I've heard many people say how Top Gun is a terrible movie, but can't pry themselves away from the TV when it is on. Back to Rocky, I gave a mediocre score to this movie because although it is horribly clichéd and cheesy, I can't refuse it's underdog charm. Perhaps Rocky IV would have been better if it wasn't for the stupid speech at the end. It would seem that fall of the Soviet Union was based on Rocky alone. Who knows, maybe it was.