Complete crap from beginning to end....

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2005)

The story was there; Rocky can no longer fight, and his financial position shatters, forcing him and his family to move back to the Philidelphia ghetto from which they came. Rocky must find a way to support his family as well as keep it together with the new pressures of poverty pulling it apart.
Then it all goes to hell.....
The acting is at a cheesy soap opera level at best. Rocky's son, is particularly annoying.
The man who plays Tommy Gunn is worse than Dolph Lundgren as an Ivan Drago. At least with Dolph, playing a robotic Soviet Super-Athlete, his robotic acting actually helped with the role. Watching Tommy prance around the screen leaping and begging for a fight like a hyper active dog gets progressively more and more annoying as time goes on. He is proof that athletes (He was a professional boxer) sometimes should generally not be cast in major roles. And seriously, who the hell came up with that name? I've noticed that everyone applaudes Stallone for not having Rocky come back and fight another opponent. I ask them if they've actually managed to watch the film to the end? Rocky beats the living hell out of Tommy in a street fight in which Rocky receives about 20 blows to the head, which he was asked to avoid because according to the docs, the next punch would kill him. I guess they were wrong, screw continuity. Yes, Gunn wasn't an impossible foe, but the fact that Rocky was one step away from a brain hemmhorage makes it just pathetically unbelievable.
I recommend you watch Rocky 1 and 2, and leave it at that if you can. They made up a fine story with good continuity....
If you want hilarious camp, watch 4....Talk about American propaganda...
If you want stupidity though.....watch 3 And if you want complete crap from beginning to end, watch 5....