A pleasure to watch

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2016)

I'm not a huge fan of Rocky but I watched all the movies of the famous saga more than once and I loved the first one. I still remember when I went to Philadelphia, where some relatives of mine live; I was 11 and I ran up the glorious stairs with joy and excitement and it's absolutely true that when you're up there it seems you can fly. Watching the sun set over the city from there was an incredible pleasure. Even though I heard very good comments about this film when I went to watch to watch it I wasn't expecting too much but I got out ecstatic! The directing left me perplexed. I didn't like it at all in some shots but then I loved in some others, particularly the fight scenes. The beauty of this film is that you can enjoy it both if you're a Rocky fan and if you know almost nothing about it. There are so many wonderful quotes to the original saga that every time something came up on the screen (from the turtle to the ball Balboa always plays with and many many others) I smiled like an idiot. Jordan strongly got up from the total disaster that Fantastic Four was. Stallone was incredible, he moved me badly, nearly made me cry. The finale is wonderful. In a boxing movie you can end in one way or another. There's always the big fight and the protagonist can win or lose but here you see the beautiful touch of the screenwriter in how it ends. How Rocky and Adonis fight together, what pushes them and how they fight. A word must be said about the beginning as well. I loved how they catapulted the viewer into Creed's story. So pure and natural his mother's feelings and how lovely they showed the emotional progression she has about him. As I previously said I wasn't expecting much but I was very satisfied with it. Such a good film, a pleasure to watch.