I must've accidentally pickled up Rocky IV: Musical Montage Edition by mistake. Either that or the film single-handedly tried to define everything that was bad about sports movies in the 80s. It’s a flashy, spangly disaster that has many of the proper ingredients in place elsewhere, but the resultant pie fails to satiate. A dressing of political bullshit doesn't help.
Dolph Lundgren as Rocky’s opponent, Ivan Drago, gets to be one half of a USA Vs Russia approach that was handled clumsily. It was the first proper role for the Swedish actor, but he gets very little dialogue. He’s a puppet, whose on-screen wife would soon become Stallone’s real world wife.
2½ loud personalities out of 5
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