Yo-Adrian!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2000)

Great film of course, done with terrific heart, believable performances, theme music, I really liked Paulie, Mick and Adrian, along with Apollo Creed.(Talk about a Muhammed Ali tribute!) Sure the boxing is a fantasy, all out offence all the time, the same kind of Hollywood sports-on-film treatment you get with 'The Natural', 'North Dallas 40', 'Longest Yard', etc. (But that is fine, Stallone's also no giant, standing about 5-9 and weighing maybe 185-90. He's a welterweight, for Pete's sake-and pulls it off!)
Sly has never been better than he is here, no doubt about it. I hope they avoid a Rocky VI like the plague, and leave well enough alone. This is the best of the lot, and I am glad that they gave it the Oscar.
****, a classic.