Misconceived.

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2013)

Sylvester Stallone returns as writer & star(though original Rocky director John G. Avildsen returns to direct) this planned final entry(did not work out that way!) in the series, which sees Rocky returning from Russia, only to discover that, not only does he have brain damage from the pummeling he took from Ivan Drago(astonishing he lived at all!) but that his brother-in-law Pauley(Burt Young) has mismanaged his money, and as a consequence, are broke...Rocky then moves back to his old Philadelphia neighborhood, where he trains up and coming boxer Tommy "The Machine" Gunn, who proves to not have the good character that Rocky did, leading to a no-holds-barred street brawl by the end.
Story makes the mistake of piling on too many hardships on Rocky(losing his money was a mistake in more ways than one!) and also casts Stallone's real life son Sage as his now inexplicably older film son(continuity gaffe there!) A disappointment.