Rocky IV
MGM/UA Entertainment Company | Release Date: November 27, 1985 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
5
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50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Beyond its visceral appeal, Rocky IV is truly the worst of the lot, though Stallone himself is more personable in this one and that helps. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Rocky IV is movie-making by the numbers. Even the climactic fight scene isn't as exciting as it should be, maybe because we know with a certainty born of long experience how it will turn out. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
This, as Fuller said, is film as battleground, love, hate, violence, action, death - in a word: emotion. Pity it's about Rocky. Read full review
40
EmpireIan Nathan
The jingoism is blindingly awful, but by the time of the showdown, the film has descended into an unaware parody of itself. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The comforting sameness of all the ''Rockys'' and the overbearing star quality of Mr. Stallone in his lovable-lug incarnation may well make Rocky IV another hit. But when it flashes back to its antecedents, particularly to the original ''Rocky'' with its bashful heroine and self-effacing star, it becomes clear how bloated and hollow the story has become. Read full review
40
NewsweekJack Kroll
In this tetralogical effort, writer-director-star Stallone has succumbed to the old one-two of silliness and cynicism. [9 Dec 1985, p.92]
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