Rocky IV Reviews
Film4
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.
Reel Film Reviews
...suffers from a vibe of superfluousness...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
The film's only major disappointment is a lack of screen-time for a pre-Foofy Foofy Brigitte Nielsen
Kansas City Kansan
Fourth in series has lost most of punch
| Original Score: 3/5
Spirituality and Practice
Proves once again that all the world loves an underdog.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sunday Times (Australia)
I know it's awful, but I can't look away!
| Original Score: 3/5
Moviehole
More action, and less plot let's makes Rocky's latest bout entertaining, but far from groundbreaking.
| Original Score: 3/5
Montreal Film Journal
If you ask me, it's mostly about 1985, a time when you could fill 90 minutes with nothing but machismo, excitement and montage.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Arizona Daily Star
Fist-pumping, heart-jumping, chest-thumping fun.
| Original Score: 5/5
BBC
While this derivative and shallow sequel might weaken the credibility of the series, there's no denying the satisfaction of watching a fight of such seemingly impossible odds.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticSylvester 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.
Empire Magazine
Ridiculous jingoistic nonsense.
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| Original Score: 2/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A far cry from the delights (both large and small) of its illustrious original.
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.
Film reduced to the barest of three acts.
