The Rocky Balboa journey should have stopped here!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2007)

This movie was fantastic, after the first Rocky movie you feel you want to see more out of Rocky, you want to know all the emotion felt after the first fight between Apollo Creed.....and Rocky II does this. Bill Conti's score is just fantastic, as the training scene before the fight delivers a rush through you with motivational music. Then the fight, which if you are a fan or professional of the boxing world you know the fight is hardly realistic. But who cares it delivers all the drama that is awaited for during the whole movie and the long time Talia shire is in a coma. The scene where she wakes up and captivates Rocky's mind to win is the best scene of all Rocky movies, as the score of Bill Conti kicks in and Burgess Meredith quotes "Well what are we waiting for?".....which is when Rocky begins to train, Geat Movie Moment!!!!.....
I would have to say also that Burgees Meredith was a catalyst for the success of the first two movies, he played his role to perfection and i thought that without him no other Rocky movies should have been made.
Which leads me to another topic of "this should of been the last Rocky!"......it should of ended here and the story of Rocky Balboa would have been known as a great two movie classic. But no, it went on and i feel the rest of the Rocky movies ruined the brilliance of the first two. whilst being interesting to watch and at times motivational they just didn't have the edge and they turned the Rocky series from cinema classics to over the top Hollywood action.
As for Rocky VI, i just saw it and i was appalled, the story has just gone too far and the reality of Rocky has just gone way out the window.
But for Rocky II......what a movie!.....9.9/10