SI.com's Greatest American Boxing Movies
#30 Rocky IV
1985
Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Dolph Lundgren.
THE STORY Retired heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa (Stallone) climbs back into the ring to face a PED-powered Soviet superman with a 2,150-psi punch.
THE LEGACY Made from pure '80s concentrate: from the synth-heavy Vince DiCola score to the Gekkovian excess of the Balboa mansion (Paulie's birthday robot?). Cold War agitprop never went down so easy.
THE QUOTE "I must break you." --Ivan Drago (Lundgren)
Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Dolph Lundgren.
THE STORY Retired heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa (Stallone) climbs back into the ring to face a PED-powered Soviet superman with a 2,150-psi punch.
THE LEGACY Made from pure '80s concentrate: from the synth-heavy Vince DiCola score to the Gekkovian excess of the Balboa mansion (Paulie's birthday robot?). Cold War agitprop never went down so easy.
THE QUOTE "I must break you." --Ivan Drago (Lundgren)
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