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Fourth instalment in the 'Rocky' saga. Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) heads to the Soviet Union after Russian boxer Drago (Dolph Lundgren) beats his friend and trainer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to death in the ring. However, will the Italian Stallion be able to vanquish a fighter whose punches can deliver a one tonne-per-square inch impact?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Leon L
Format:DVD
Wow! This is a trully gripping film. My favourite of the Rocky films. Yes he does get smacked about a bit (apparently sometimes a lot of the punches were connecting on Stallone) as Rocky always does. But its not quite as painful to watch as Rocky I and Rocky II.
Rocky feels compelled to get into the ring after his friend dies after being horrifying mauled in the ring by a Russian fighter - Drago. There's some mumbo jumbo about US and USSR cold war stuff, but that very much takes a backseat to the intense training scenes and nail-biting final fight between Rocky and Drago.
Just looking at the the size and height of Drago [Lundgren] who is supposedly computer-trained, steroid-enhanced muscle that "destroys" what he touches and comparing to Stallone [Rocky] ranks it up a notch.
There is some amazing 80's music from Survivor for the "actors" to really go full out on their training to. These guys are just going for it with barbells, speedballs, rope, skipping ropes, tracks, elevated treadmills, climbing machines, sparring, lifting wagons, wood chopping, frozen river fording, mountain climbing, crazy looking "no pain... no pain..." isometrics training and wagon wheel fitting. The actors really are althetes but still manage to turn in a competent performance (so don't be put off!).
If you look at the cover with Stallone squaring up to Lundgren you know this is going to be one hard fought battle. Really, there is no way Rocky should win and Burt Young turns in an heart felt peformance as his corner man and injects that bit of a common man feel which grounds the training and final fight scenes well.
If you haven't seen this film I cannot recommend it enough. If you have seen it why not snap it up on widescreen and Dolby 5.1 stereo.... Read more ›
Rocky feels compelled to get into the ring after his friend dies after being horrifying mauled in the ring by a Russian fighter - Drago. There's some mumbo jumbo about US and USSR cold war stuff, but that very much takes a backseat to the intense training scenes and nail-biting final fight between Rocky and Drago.
Just looking at the the size and height of Drago [Lundgren] who is supposedly computer-trained, steroid-enhanced muscle that "destroys" what he touches and comparing to Stallone [Rocky] ranks it up a notch.
There is some amazing 80's music from Survivor for the "actors" to really go full out on their training to. These guys are just going for it with barbells, speedballs, rope, skipping ropes, tracks, elevated treadmills, climbing machines, sparring, lifting wagons, wood chopping, frozen river fording, mountain climbing, crazy looking "no pain... no pain..." isometrics training and wagon wheel fitting. The actors really are althetes but still manage to turn in a competent performance (so don't be put off!).
If you look at the cover with Stallone squaring up to Lundgren you know this is going to be one hard fought battle. Really, there is no way Rocky should win and Burt Young turns in an heart felt peformance as his corner man and injects that bit of a common man feel which grounds the training and final fight scenes well.
If you haven't seen this film I cannot recommend it enough. If you have seen it why not snap it up on widescreen and Dolby 5.1 stereo.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
i dint wanna watch this film being a girl but as soon it came on i was gripped.
this is without a doubt a great film to watch who ever you are,
james brown puts on a good show that show that seems to irritate ivan drago so much so that he feels the need to punch apollo creed to death (literally). When asked what he thinks of this he chillingly responds "if he dies he dies"
when i watched this part of this movie my heart goes out to james brown and apollos family (let it be noted that james brown does not make a 2nd appearance at the match between drago and rocky) may be this is what keeps rocky alive. this film should be watched whilst wearing boxing gloves as you feel the need to start punching people around you.
this is without a doubt a great film to watch who ever you are,
james brown puts on a good show that show that seems to irritate ivan drago so much so that he feels the need to punch apollo creed to death (literally). When asked what he thinks of this he chillingly responds "if he dies he dies"
when i watched this part of this movie my heart goes out to james brown and apollos family (let it be noted that james brown does not make a 2nd appearance at the match between drago and rocky) may be this is what keeps rocky alive. this film should be watched whilst wearing boxing gloves as you feel the need to start punching people around you.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Even more 1980s than ROCKY III, Rocky apparently has the answer on foreign policy between USSR and USA
2 Nov 2007
By Mike London
Format:DVD
ROCKY IV, billed as East meets West, is a pretty good action film from the 1980s. That doesn't mean it's a good Rocky movie as far as dramatic or Oscar worthy issues go, but it is one of those films you think of when you think of classic 1980s movies.
This time around, Rocky must fight Ivan Drago, a fighter from the USSR. Not only that, he must fight Drago in Russia itself for the climactic fight.
Ivan Drago comes to fight for the pride of Russia. He has an intense training schedule, and his charecteriation is over-the-top, catoonish, more fantasy than reality. Drago is unstoppable it appears. Apollo fights him (in attempts to regain something of a career) and is killed. So when Rocky decides to fight him, he must fight for not only his own national pride, but for his life and the honour of his friend as well.
The film very much focuses the differing contrast between Russia and America. Prime examples of this is the opening sequences for the two main fights that occur in the film.
The first fight features Apollo Creed, reprised again by Carl Weathers, against Drago. Now Creed is pretty desperate to get back into the spotlight, and he takes an exhibition match against Drago to help propel his fighting career and to get his name out there again among the fans. To start the fight, Drago is alone on the stage in an underground area. The stage is then raised up from the lower pit into the ground floor of the arena. Then James Brown (the king of soul) begins to sing an over-the-top number called "Living in America", and Apollo Creed enters the arena from high above. The whole sequence is an exercise in how gaudy and excessive Americans can get.... Read more ›
This time around, Rocky must fight Ivan Drago, a fighter from the USSR. Not only that, he must fight Drago in Russia itself for the climactic fight.
Ivan Drago comes to fight for the pride of Russia. He has an intense training schedule, and his charecteriation is over-the-top, catoonish, more fantasy than reality. Drago is unstoppable it appears. Apollo fights him (in attempts to regain something of a career) and is killed. So when Rocky decides to fight him, he must fight for not only his own national pride, but for his life and the honour of his friend as well.
The film very much focuses the differing contrast between Russia and America. Prime examples of this is the opening sequences for the two main fights that occur in the film.
The first fight features Apollo Creed, reprised again by Carl Weathers, against Drago. Now Creed is pretty desperate to get back into the spotlight, and he takes an exhibition match against Drago to help propel his fighting career and to get his name out there again among the fans. To start the fight, Drago is alone on the stage in an underground area. The stage is then raised up from the lower pit into the ground floor of the arena. Then James Brown (the king of soul) begins to sing an over-the-top number called "Living in America", and Apollo Creed enters the arena from high above. The whole sequence is an exercise in how gaudy and excessive Americans can get.... Read more ›
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
Rocky IV has been dismissed as both an exercise in cold war, pro-American propaganda and an aesthetically impoversished film. I disagree on both counts.
In terms of its propaganda status, the film's ideological standpoint is far from straightforwardly pro-American. The fight takes place in Russia because Drago has received death threats whilst staying in the USA. So much for the land of the free! Despite the flag coloured boxing gloves at the film's intro, and Apollo's patriotic stance towards his ill-fated fight with Drago, Rocky's approach to the fight is couched in individualistic, nation-free terms. For him it seems to be more about avenging and honouring a friend's memory rather than regaining injured national pride. But then again Rocky's motivation for the fight is presented as itself highly ambiguous. At the start there is a clash of values as Apollo has to persuade Rocky to back him in his fight with the Ruissian. Apollo asserts his warrior-like 'killer instinct' by stating that 'you can't change what you really are'. This is against Rocky's assertion that 'everybody changes at some time', that both him and Apollo are slowly losing their fighting skills and killer instincts, that they are 'changing into regular people'. Rocky feels a duty to avenge a fight that he never supported in the first place. He feels guilty for obeying Apollo's wishes and refusing to throw in the towel 'no matter what'. In taking the fight with the Russian Rocky abandons his own values and his world title (and, at least temporarily, his family)in order to stand up for Apollo's beliefs that he found unconvincing anyway. Rocky is less a hero with a goal to achieve than someone with a dilemma to live through.... Read more ›
In terms of its propaganda status, the film's ideological standpoint is far from straightforwardly pro-American. The fight takes place in Russia because Drago has received death threats whilst staying in the USA. So much for the land of the free! Despite the flag coloured boxing gloves at the film's intro, and Apollo's patriotic stance towards his ill-fated fight with Drago, Rocky's approach to the fight is couched in individualistic, nation-free terms. For him it seems to be more about avenging and honouring a friend's memory rather than regaining injured national pride. But then again Rocky's motivation for the fight is presented as itself highly ambiguous. At the start there is a clash of values as Apollo has to persuade Rocky to back him in his fight with the Ruissian. Apollo asserts his warrior-like 'killer instinct' by stating that 'you can't change what you really are'. This is against Rocky's assertion that 'everybody changes at some time', that both him and Apollo are slowly losing their fighting skills and killer instincts, that they are 'changing into regular people'. Rocky feels a duty to avenge a fight that he never supported in the first place. He feels guilty for obeying Apollo's wishes and refusing to throw in the towel 'no matter what'. In taking the fight with the Russian Rocky abandons his own values and his world title (and, at least temporarily, his family)in order to stand up for Apollo's beliefs that he found unconvincing anyway. Rocky is less a hero with a goal to achieve than someone with a dilemma to live through.... Read more ›
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Published on 9 Oct 2009 by TimeJock
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The best
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Decline of the Rocky Empire
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Published on 13 May 2007 by Jay
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Published on 28 Feb 2007 by I. Thomson
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