ROCKY IV

'''ROCKY IV. Sylvester Stallone, dir., writer, star.''' USA: United Artists, 1985.

Mainstream/mundane sports-and-patriotism movie. "All-American, organic" (our phrase) Rocky Balboa, the "Italian Stallion" of ROCKY [I] vs. the Russian boxer Drago (Dolph Lundgren), described by Jack Kroll as a "robot Russky" and "cybernetic super-Slav" (Newsweek, 9 Dec. 1985: 92). The film's presentation of technology is discussed in a syndicated column by Ellen Goodman, published in, among other places, The Cincinnati Post for 24 Dec. 1985 under the title "Rocky IV, American 'hero' with a 'heart'" (p. 8A).