rocky balboa movie review

This is the same Rocky we have gotten to know over the years but here we see his vulnerability. I really enjoyed the movie and so did my kids.

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. The Rocky franchise follows the titular boxer as he reaches the pinnacle of the boxing worldWidely credited with popularizing the sports drama genre the Rocky movies took the ideology behind the underdog story and turned it into an. This film rated high in most categories however there is one GD uttered by Paulie in a fit of anger. Yes I agree with you about Adrian.

By Evan Jacobs Published Dec 13 2006. ROCKY BALBOA is an uplifting movie showing real people battling real life struggles. The antagonist Mason Dixon is not a villain but a misguided young man searching for what matters with Rocky being a willing teacher.

Rocky is the consummate boxing movie. Hes not very smart but hes generous and hes not good at hiding his. While some doubted the films performance Rocky Balboa was an unexpected box office success grossing 702 million at the domestic box office and 1562 million globally on a 24 million budget.

Of course Rocky Balboa IS a boxing movie so viewers should not be surprised by any brutality during the obligatory boxing match. Read full review 60 JR. During the first 70 minutes the movie is primarily dialogue and reminiscences.

Rocky Balboa is far from essential and there are moments in it bad enough to make you wince. It contains some of the best acting Stallone has ever done. He depends on other to kind of look out for him.

The characters are well developed and believable. Its not a great film but it is an intelligent insightful movie about greatness. Rocky Balboa was a little painful to watch.

Like its forerunners it goes the distance almost in spite of itself. June 18 2008 239 am Ojay. And even here the movie looks like a genre fight picture from the 1940s right down to the plucky little gymnasium manager Burgess Meredith who puts Rocky through training and right down to the lonely morning ritual of rising at four drinking six raw eggs and going out to do roadwork.

Now sixty years old Slyvester Stallone resurrects his legendary boxing hero Rocky Balboa with the aptly titled sixth installment Rocky Balboa for one final fightSince fans last saw him in Rocky V in 1990 which I admittedly havent seen more than a few minutes. Rocky struggling with the death of Adrian and struggling with what to do with his life in general. Talia Shire missing from Rocky Balboa created a whole that this latest release of the Rocky series could not dig their way out of.

He takes guff from pal Paulie Burt Young and worries about his son Robert. No sappy cliché goes untapped as Rocky runs a restaurant named after his dead wife Adrian whose grave he visits daily. It could be that Rocky the Italian Stallion the legendary boxer he first created in 1976 is supposed to be younger than that but no one in this film ever has the bad taste to mention his precise.

Rocky Balboa The Sixth entry in Sylvester Stallones ring cycle pulls off the unique cinematic feat of being totally terrible and completely brilliant. Despite his sons standoffish attitude Rocky works to overcome the obstacles between them. While its widely considered the best of the franchise Rocky IV actually ruins one of the best things about Balboas movies.

He has a crush on Adrian Talia Shire the painfully shy sister of his friend Pauly Burt Young. The film actually references a controversial statue commissioned by Stallone for Rocky III which was briefly installed atop the Art Museum steps derided by many as a movie prop and eventually removed to the Wachovia Spectrum. But I dare you not to feel at least a tiny little rush when that opening bell rings and Rocky starts swinging one final time.

Before it was completed there was probably only one person who believed a sixth Rocky film was necessary or even wanted. The integrity and moral fiber of this movie are an inspiration. Surprisingly Rocky Balboa is no embarrassment.

Rocky Balboa 2006 have 4 comments. He does hard manual labor. Its all heart and no credibility except as a.

Now a bartender and the single mother of her own troubled teenager James Francis Kelly III she welcomes his friendship. Unfortunately he has worked with crooks because its the only living he knows. What makes the movie extraordinary is that it doesnt.

That old boxer who just feels like hes got one more fight in him. Rocky Balboa is THE sequel to Rockythe greatest underdog movie of all-timeAlthough the Rocky franchise has made many like Rockys IIIIIIVV and this filmit is the only one that holds the candle to itDespite of not having Talia Shirewho portrays a major role Rockys wife Adrian - who has served his major inspiration in the first five. ROCKY Balboa Sylvester Stallone is a sweet-natured but not very bright boxer and small-time enforcer for a loan-shark.

Written and directed by Stallone this modest drama is. One of the most powerful scenes between father and son begins with an annoyed Robert trying to talk Dad out of fighting. Rocky Balboa is not an action movie.

From the nostalgia of bringing back past characters to the way it. Sylvester Stallones boxer has thick head and a good heart. In the fight at the end when Rocky started the typical comeback my kids were jumping up and down screaming with excitement.

Rocky Balboa PG 2006 Drama 1h 42m 77 Tomatometer 181 Reviews 76 Audience Score 250000 Ratings What to know critics consensus Implausible but entertaining and poignant Rocky Balboa finds the. But its also the story of a man who had pretty much wasted his life. Dove rates movies on behalf of the family audience based on content message and production value.

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