A bad movie

In the ‘Rocky’ franchise, this movie usually belongs to the guilty pleasures. Indeed, the 5th installment is universally despised by most of the viewers but this 4th movie occasionally gets some love. To start with, it was the highest grossing film in the Rocky series, reaching a rather impressive $300 million worldwide gross but it doesn’t mean that it was any good, it just meant that they would make another sequel for sure. Anyway, personally, I really didn’t like this flick. Sure, compare to the following sequel, it was almost a masterpiece but I seriously got bored. Indeed, now we are far from the gritty realism of ‘Rocky’, and instead, we get once again the same old story (Rocky gets in trouble, you get a good old training montage, he gets on the ring and, of course, wins the fight against his current nemesis). By now, I was pretty much done with this formula and to see how they added some patriotism/propaganda to the whole thing made this movie even more pathetic. I understand that the fans just enjoy this for what it is, some brainless entertainment, but I just can’t share their enthusiasm.To conclude, I really didn’t like this flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except of course if you are a die-hard fan of this franchise.

4/10