Rocky IV (1985)

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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.

March 11, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

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.

December 19, 2006 Full Review | Comments (2)

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Film reduced to the barest of three acts.

June 24, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

Even the hint of political power that Rocky garners by the end of this latest battle is made to seem like more of the same empty glory.

May 20, 2003 Full Review

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Even Sylvester Stallone seems to be getting tired of the series; as the writer and director, as well as the star, he puts himself through the same old paces.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment (1)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Ridiculous jingoistic nonsense.

March 11, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

Ian Nathan

Empire Magazine

Boxers are noted for their hubris, but Stallone, perhaps still punch-drunk from the early success, would have been better advised to have quit rather than suffer the body blows of this nonsense.

March 11, 2008 Full Review

Film4

A far cry from the delights (both large and small) of its illustrious original.

December 19, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

TV Guide's Movie Guide

...suffers from a vibe of superfluousness...

December 6, 2006 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The film's only major disappointment is a lack of screen-time for a pre-Foofy Foofy Brigitte Nielsen

March 24, 2006 Full Review

Leo Goldsmith

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Predictable and corny. When the Soviet fans as well as the Soviet government officials stand up and cheer Rocky at the end, you can't help but roll your eyes in disbelief.

February 18, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Chuck O'Leary

FulvueDrive-in.com

Fourth in series has lost most of punch

October 24, 2004

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

Proves once again that all the world loves an underdog.

August 22, 2004 Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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January 30, 2004 | Comments (2)

Daniel M. Kimmel

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Cold War metaphors delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer dampens the storytelling.

September 21, 2003 | Comments (2)

Gabriel Shanks

Mixed Reviews

• 1. Rocky Balboa: If I can change and you can change, everybody can change.
  – Submitted by The Vinh H (2 months ago)
• 1. Drago: I must break you.
  – Submitted by Simon I (7 months ago)
• 1. Drago: If he dies...he dies.
  – Submitted by Jared B (8 months ago)
• 1. Drago: You will lose.
  – Submitted by Zach W (13 months ago)
• 1. Duke: You Cut him! You HURT him! You see. You see. He's not a Machine, He's a Man!
  – Submitted by Nigel N (13 months ago)
• 1. Rocky Balboa: I see three of him out there.
  2. Paulie: Hit the one in the middle.
  3. Duke: Right! Hit the one in the middle.
  – Submitted by Hasan R (14 months ago)

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