a brilliant underdog movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2006)

Rocky is brilliant movie with realistic actors. It's not too much Hollywood, although it's a heroic movie. I think it's a smart idea of the producers to let Rocky lose against Apollo after a great fight. Moreover I think it's a great choice to let Rocky live in a-not-so-wealthy neighborhood, but not let him be such over-the-top gangster. Many things in the movie were not planed (ex. there ought to be many more people skating on the ice, Stallone's father and brother got a role in the movie, Butkus wasn't the original dog they wanted), but they were all solved and it looked very smooth. I'd say Rocky is a brilliant underdog movie which shows in a realistic way the most beautiful things that mankind can have: courage, wills power and hope.