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Sylvester Stallone | ... | ||
Talia Shire | ... | ||
Burt Young | ... | ||
Carl Weathers | ... | ||
Brigitte Nielsen | ... | ||
Tony Burton | ... | ||
Michael Pataki | ... | ||
Dolph Lundgren | ... | ||
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Stu Nahan | ... |
Commentator #1
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R.J. Adams | ... |
Sports Announcer
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Al Bandiero | ... |
American Commentator #2
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Dominic Barto | ... |
Russian Government Official
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Danial Brown | ... |
Rocky Jr.'s Friend
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James Brown | ... | ||
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Rose Mary Campos | ... |
Maid
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Ever since his match with Clubber Lang, Rocky Balboa has a peaceful life. And now he and former champion, Apollo Creed, enjoy good times and are now the best of friends. But Rocky's peaceful life as a boxer gets paused after a match Apollo went into. Unfortunately, Creed fought Ivan drago, a 6'5" Russian who has never lost a match, and sadly, brutally murders Apollo in the ring. A funeral is held and times start going downhill fast. Now, in order to restore honor, Rocky challenges Drago to a match and must beat him for sweet, bitter vengeance.
The sheer effort Dolph (Ivan Drago), Sylvester (Rocky Balboa) and Carl (Apollo Creed) must have gone into training for this film must have been truly awesome. They all look amazingly fit and sculptured. I think more so than any current modern day boxer.
Kudos to Dolph who in almost his first major feature film (his first was View to a Kill) made, at least for me, a major impact. Despite his lack of dialog "I must break you" is right up there with Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back". He looked amazingly strong - a freak almost - just as the plot intended. Scary. He looked even taller than the 6 inch difference between him and Stallone (Lundgren 6'4", Stallone 5'10").
I would think that difference in height/reach would make him nigh on impossible to defeat if this were REAL. Of course it is a movie. Dolph is the highlight and was sad to see Apollo's demise (but at least it shut him up). The writers must have based Apollo's character on Muhammed Ali surely! Am currently watching Rocky V and is interesting so far!