An unashamed feel-good movie.

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2010)

The film tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia. Rocky starts out as a club fighter who gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship when the scheduled contender breaks his hand.
Rocky is an uplifting, likable underdog film that came after a traumatic decade for America, with an apparently average Ordinary Joe for a hero, a character who might have been a minor sidekick in an urban pre-war film. Stallone wrote himself a part with grit, wit and a little self-deprecation, and showed an indomitability in getting it made that recalled Rocky's unlikely rise through the ranks.