"HE BLEEDS TOO!"... Outstanding performance of Jordan and Stallone!

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2016)

I'm not a fan of the whole franchise, but Rocky Balboa (2006) hit the right spot and this sixth statement knock me down to watch the previous movies with other eyes.
Stallone is at his best in the movie, and deserved the nomination for the Golden Globe. In this film I was able to see the same Rocky that I loved from nine years ago, but now in a fight outside of the ring, where the character shows his real value, and with a backup of the new generation, gritty, messed up, young Adonis Creed, brought to life by the amazing performance of Michael B. Jordan.
The directing is pretty awesome. A couple masters through the fights, a great work in the montage of the training and the fights, and shots that capture the intimacy between Unc and Donnie. A very nice work that made the movie different of other sports flicks. It wasn't about the fighter, the legacy, the cancer, the final fight itself. It was subjective in a point that few movies can get.
Other thing that really hooked me into it was the make-up. You were able to see a bruise appear just after the punch and the way that they escalated. That f*cked up eye in the final fight was like, "Sh*t, I almost threw up my dinner!". But not only that! The make up on Stallone during the fight with cancer was pretty amazing either. He isn't a young boy anymore, but the make up made him look a couple years older and really sick and so.
The story is very good, with a good tone and in no moment appellative in the cancer point. After all it isn't a movie about Rocky, is about Adonis, and they kept in the right way. They didn't made a movie about Rocky the trainer, trying to bring back the hero of the 70's and 80's. He was part of the movie about a new star! And that worked fine!
It is a great movie, check it out as soon as possible!