Not quite as bad as people make it out to be

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2018)

There were a lot of things about this Rocky that just didn't work. For one thing Rocky really sounds like he's got brain damage in this one, however in fairness he did just takes some extremely hard shots from Ivan Drago....Although I'm glad that Rocky's character didn't die at the end as was the original intention, it's the very reason that the final street brawl didn't work. It does show a lot of heart and sensitivity from Stallone however. It's not so much a movie about boxing as it is a story about a father and a son facing the crises of life together and thereby becoming closer. I found the George "Washington" Duke character very annoying and Tommy Morrison not the greatest actor. It is still the weakest in the series