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Rocky IV
After Russian boxer, Drago killed Rocky Balboa's friend Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky has come out of retirement to payback for the sad loss of his friend in a long and bloody match.
23 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
20 December 1930, Pennsylvania, USA
16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
22 June 1952, Van Nuys, California, USA
3 May 1933, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA
8 February 1926, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 June 1921, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
20 September 1942, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
29 October 1957, Yuba City, California, USA
14 January 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19 April 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 February 1953, Hollywood, California, USA
3 November 1957, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
May 13, 2015
Though it's impossible not to get caught up in our hero's Russian training programme, or to root for his climactic victory, the mawkish montages accompanied by blaring music are no substitute for plot shading.
July 07, 2010
Whatever charm and grit there was in the first film is gone, replaced with a glossed up, over the top form of 1980's action melodrama, which is thick on the cheese and even thicker on the montages. And this critic loved every minute of it.
April 30, 2016
'Rocky IV' still stands, not as a highlight of the series (certainly not that) but as a quintessential artifact of mid-'80s studio filmmaking: soulless, flag-waving, soundtrack-blasting Product.
May 13, 2015
His vacuous post-bout speech indicates why boxers with 75 professional bouts are rarely called upon as public speakers.
May 13, 2015
The new film's narrative is stripped down to essentials, which gives it an emblematic quality.
May 13, 2015
The outcome of the film is predetermined by the formulaic scripts of Rocky II and Rocky III. Stallone boxed himself into a corner with this one.
May 13, 2015
Padded with clips from earlier Rocky pictures, adding nothing to his mythic, let alone human dimensions, it lacks even the primitive suspense and crude capacity to release underdog emotions that permitted its predecessors to conquer one's better judgment.
March 11, 2008
Sylvester Stallone is really sloughing it off shamelessly in Rocky IV, but it's still impossible not to root for old Rocky Balboa to get up off the canvas and whup that bully one more time.
December 19, 2006
The crazed flag-waving would be a lot easier to take if it weren't so clearly a commercial calculation meant to salvage what is otherwise a crass, careless, shamelessly padded film.
May 13, 2015
This is grim and witless storytelling, and what makes it so depressing is that it hasn't improved by so much as a chemical trace since the days of the first Rocky.
May 13, 2015
[Stallone] creates credible villains worthy of his heroic character.
