Underrated

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2003)

This movie is painfully underrated. Maybe people don't like it because the hero of a decade has fallen. But Rocky did not belong in a mansion. He belonged in his old neighborhood. Didn't we all know that? Didn't we all wince when Rock "became civilized"? Rocky V brings Rocky back to his old haunts; he even wears some of his old clothes. Granted, it is probably the most painful Rocky movie to watch, but this is only pathos--not flaws in the film.