i dont get why this is such a revered film and gets held up as one of the best sequels. this was the worst rocky sequel ive seen (though i havent seen the widely despised rocky v), everything outside the final fight was clumsy. some of the training montages were solid and that final fight was great, but the rest of the film sucked and just about every scene with paulie was unwatchable. the robot thing was weird and they kept trying to play paulie for laughs, but it wasnt funny at all. even the fight between drago and apollo wasnt very good. it was poorly edited and the movements of the boxers felt off. the boxing has always been a incredible strength for the rocky films, but that fight didnt feel natural at all, especially drago, which is weird, because the movements felt fine during his fight with rocky. the entire russia thing where rocky ends communism and converts the russian people by fighting drago well was really dumb. the juxtaposition of rocky training in nature while drago trains with machines worked pretty well, but i had to laugh when they showed drago using steroids. one of those actors was obviously on the juice, and it wasnt dolph lundgren. also shoutout to brigitte nielsen, who was asked to do absolutely nothing.