Rocky IV Reviews
Top CriticEven 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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Flipside Movie Emporium
A camp classic, funny for all the wrong reasons.
| Original Score: 1/5
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.
Film reduced to the barest of three acts.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Should have stopped at three. Four, no more.
| Original Score: 1/5
Mixed Reviews
Cold War metaphors delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer dampens the storytelling.
| Original Score: 1/5
FulvueDrive-in.com
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.
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| Original Score: C
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
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.
Arizona Daily Star
Fist-pumping, heart-jumping, chest-thumping fun.
| Original Score: 5/5
