Granted it was the most original sequel, it still felt wrong.

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2009)

Of the Rocky movies I have seen, this one is by far the worst. Never saw Rocky Balboa so I do not know how that one stacks up to the others. One of the many problems of this movie is its feel, it does not feel like a theatrical movie. It feels like a direct to video or maybe a television movie rather than a movie made for the theaters. I also did not like the way poor Apollo is now just an afterthought getting only one mention in the entire movie. It makes the fight against Drago just the setup for the brain trauma that Rocky suffers in this film that causes him to be unable to fight. This film also has the annoying guy doing the Don King impersonation that gets very irritating after awhile. So the story, Rocky loses all money and is forced back in to his old neighborhood where he meets and up and coming boxer named Tommy Gunn (played poorly by Tommy Morrison)who wishes Rocky to train him and gets mad when Rocky gets to much attention. Why he did not see that coming is beyond me. The movie does not really feature all that much ring boxing and the fight at the end is rather bad and not at all entertaining and the Mickey flashbacks are a bit creepy. Basically, a movie that would have been better off not being made.