Rocky IV (2021)

This installment of Rocky slightly recaptures the inspiration and spirit of the originals, but seems to be missing something. It wasn't long enough and had too many montages to lengthen it out. I must say that the montage of Rocky driving his Ferrari thinking about his now deceased friend brought more emotional impact to the film. The scene of the American boxing commission refusing to sanction Rocky's fight with Drago should of been included in the original because it clears up the confusion as to why the title was not on the line. Great music although I miss Bill Conti's score from the previous films. Solid performances from everbody including Bridgette Nielson as she's basically Drago's wife and spokesperson. Dolph Lundgren didn't have to do too much except look intimidating and destroy people. The Russian spectators suddenly cheering for Rocky half way through the fight? Give me a break. Entertaining but a little far fetched

The development of Ivan Drago as a bad character, with his robot like training regimen is so well paralleled to Rocky Balboa's primitive training on the countryside. The contract between Rocky and the 6' 4" Russian makes Rocky such great under dog in the traditional Rocky theme.

Rocky IVJust like the songs, exercise routines and repetitive clips, it seems redundant to add another installment in this already falling franchise when you clearly lack material. Rocky IV is petty, childish and seems overlong despite of its 91 minutes of run time for it merely has an idea of a TV drama episode which is stretched to a point of exhaustion. Its painful to watch Sylvester Stallone go through this enormous amount of training and hardly make a point out there. He fails on all the levels here; writer, director and actor, to deliver any loose end of the thread for the audience to hang on to. Rocky IV is predictable, loosely written and choreographed and executed unsupervised.

I don't really care about the critics opinion although it affects people's judgement about a film, also I don't care if it's East vs. West. In my opinion this film is a classic, maybe it's the fourth installment of the series but it has to be the best Rocky film (and there are many good Rocky films) and probably my favorite sport film ever. One thing that is so special in this film is that it has so many good songs (Survivor's Burning Heart has to be my favorite), how can you not like the scenes when No Easy Way Out plays, so touching. All the songs are awesome in the film, and I really mean ALL OF THEM!Now when it comes to the film, I need to say that in the 3 previous movies we've seen really important fights but this one...oh this one took it to another level.