“A steroidal inflation of the humble palooka’s underdog saga into a jingoistic, MTV gladiator movie in which an oiled-up Stallone defeats Communism in the form of Dolph Lundgren’s Russian super-soldier. To revisit Rocky IV is to be reminded that even though you loved a movie dearly when you were ten years old, that doesn’t mean it’s actually any good.” – North Shore Movies, 11/16/2021