Rocky Review Series: Part 2 - Rise of the Tiger

After the sucess of the first 2 film, it was only natural that there was going to be a Rocky III. Unfortunatly, things began to take a turn for the worse with this series. Again, there will be spoilers



Rocky III takes place 3 years after the end of Rocky II and apperantly, Rocky is now rich. Rocky has become a bussnessman and has lost his speech impediment. During the unvaling of the Rocky Statue at the museum, Rocky announces his retirement but, a brutish boxer by the name of Clubber Lang challenges Rocky to a fight. Rocky agrees and beings to train with Mickey. The part about this is that Rocky's training sessions are like parties, with tons of people asking for autographs and pictures. At the fight, Rocky is easily defeated by Clubber and Mickey dies of heart failure. Now filled with grief again, Rocky mopes arounds Mickey's Gym until a face from the past offers to help him prepare for a rematch with Clubber. The Face is none other than Apollo Creed. Apollo takes Rocky to where he started, in the slums of California. Apollo does this to get Rocky's egde or his "Eye of the Tiger" back. Rocky then furiously trains with Apollo and his former manager, Duke. Although there have been a few bumps in the road during his training, Rocky manages to defeat Clubber.

Compared to the first 2 films, this one sucked. Rocky is not the Rocky we all know and love in this one. All this movie was is just away for people to make money, not for entertainment value, hell the only good thing to come out of this was Eye of the Tiger.




Rocky IV takes place right after III and Rocky is pretty much the same as he is in the last one. When a Boxer named Ivan Drago from the USSR comes to fight Rocky, Apollo desides to fight him. In the fight against Drago, Apollo is brutally mashed to death. Now wanting revenge, Rocky travels to the USSR to train and fight Drago. After training in the russian country, Rocky takes on Drago and yet again wins.

So Rocky IV was a little better than III but, it still lacked. The only thing going for it was the crazy amount of montages and that was about it. They say that after IV, that V was a piece a crap and Balboa was amazing, I beg to differ...