Sylvester Stallone presents you Dolph Lundgren

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2010)

This film in Rocky saga is another great movie. Now this time due to height of cold war it was made in a political manner. This time Rocky is not fighting for himself but for the honor and dignity of his country. Now here enter the soviets.They have brought a hulking 6-6 tall 250 pound amateur boxing champion Ivan Drago.The man weighs 1850 lbs when he delivers his best punch. In the story as usual in those times Russians were again portrayed as vicious like they were in the USA just to embarrass their American counterparts. Apollo creed jumps in out of his retirement as to teach the Russian that he is a nobody and it takes a lot of courage and heart to be a champion not being big strong and bio chemical making of body enhancement. But he underestimated the capability of Ivan Drago , the exhibition match ended as fatal and disasters defeat for Apollo. Rocky who was in there as watching as Apollo s aide and supporter decided to take on next challenge to take on the huge soviet in the heart of his own country. If you see the movie things are aggravated soon when Apollo used some aggressive statements about the Russian and there he decided to inflict heavy damage to Apollo. While Rocky was trying to convince Apollo not to be impatient and impulsive about the fight before understanding his opponents abilities , Apollo goes on with the plan. Like Rocky 2 Adrian Balboa again confronts Rocky about his decision to contest and there is again some rift and distance between them. But as far as its sound track is concerned this was the one of best top 10s of 80s. The training montage was perhaps the best ever in this trilogy. In the fight when things get more tough the theme war was so excellent. I still enjoy its sound track. One of our late friend saw this movie in theater he said i was so thrilled that it occurred to me that i am going to have a boxing session with some body. But the most really incredible thing which was the life of the movie was Dolph Lundgren(ivan Drago). It was the best discovery by Stallone. Ivan drago proved almost the best opponent of Rocky Balboa. Dolph Lundgren himself was tall and hand some with good muscle built.From here perhaps he rose to stardom. Apart from anti-soviet propaganda i consider it one of my best in the 80s which i recommended to others resulting in appreciation all over. It belongs to both Rocky Balboa and Ivan drago from beginning till the the end.