Rocky 4 is a great American film and that is written by, starring by and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Its premiere was 1985. The film is the most successful in the series of Rocky.

In the film Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has retired his career and he is spending peacefully time with his wife and son. However he and his good friend Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) sometimes miss to come back in the ring.

Soon Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) arrives in America with his support troops. Drago is very big fighter and his manager says that he is the most trained athlete ever. Creed who has also retired decides that he challenges Drago to fight.

Rocky train Creeds for the match and they believe that the fight will be easy for them. The match got weird start because Creeds entrance is really arrogant. In the entrance Apollo is dressed up his old Uncle Sam outfit and he is singing “living in America” song. The fight was really unhappy because Drago hit so hard and so many times so that Apollo died on ring.

Few times after apollos death Balboa decides to fight against Ivan Drago. Match will be in Russia on Christmas Day. Rocky pack his baggage and headed in Russia with his coach Duke (Tony Burton) and his wife brother Paulie (Burt Young). In Russia Balboa train very primitive he example run in mountain, chop down trees etc. Instead of Drago uses modern technology on his training and he also uses anabolic steroids. During preparing for the match Rockys wife Adrian (Talia Shire) came here in Russia because she is not sure is everything okay about rockys training.

The fight was a spectacle. They both give hard hits and they both receive hard hits. During the match even Russian audience started to encourage Balboa because his stamina was admirable. However like many other fight movie the hero survive to champion so it happen also in this movie. Rocky gives few hard straight and Drago drop at floor.

The film is came out when cold war was action and this film take a stance on it. Because the movie is American it praise America and underestimate Soviet Union. Arms race so reached also in film industry not only nuclear rearmament.

Rocky IV made worldwide 300 million dollars the most of any other rocky film. Dolph Lundgren won best actor trophy at the Napierville Cinema Festival. Rocky IV won Germany`s Golden Screen Award.

I like very much this film because the story was good and anyway fighting movies are in my opinion pretty good even stories are not always as good as Rocky IV. (434)