Rocky IV
November 21, 1985 in theaters
Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen takes him to Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised bout.
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"I must break you."
DID YOU KNOW?
The film cost $28 million and grossed $300 million globally -- one of the highest profit ratios in franchise history.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
The franchise at its most stylized and least realistic, and also its most purely entertaining as a piece of Cold War mythology. Ivan Drago is less a character than an opposing symbol, the training montage is the form's apotheosis, and the film makes no pretense at subtlety. It works entirely on its own terms, which are operatic and cartoonish in roughly equal measure. A film that understood exactly what its audience wanted in 1985 and delivered it without reservation.
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