Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 09/30/1997
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 91 min
Distributor/Studio: MGM
The third sequel to
Sylvester Stallone's boxing blockbuster combines the ringside
sports melodrama of the previous installments with the Cold War patriotism of the star/director's other motion picture series of the 1980s, the
Rambo saga.
Stallone is back as
Rocky Balboa, the heavyweight champion of the world and now good friend of his one-time nemesis,
Apollo Creed (
Carl Weathers).
Creed is brutally slaughtered in the boxing ring during a lop-sided exhibition match against the superhuman Russian boxer
Ivan Drago (
Dolph Lundgren), an event that
Rocky takes personally. Vowing revenge against
Drago in the name of
Creed and the United States,
Rocky is invited to the Soviet Union for a matchup and hires
Creed's former manager (
Tony Burton) to get him in shape. While
Drago trains using the latest technology,
Rocky's ascetic preparations are a low-key affair of carrying logs up hills through knee-deep Russian snow.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide