The worst in the series, but still good

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2006)

I have said many times that I am probably one of the very few movie fans that love all Rocky sequels. Don't really know why. Love the 80s decade and I regret I am born in 1990 and I have missed these great years for movies. The original is classic and all the sequels are some of the most entertaining sequels to a movie ever made. Kinda underrated maybe. Now back to the 5th which we thought is the last. Here we have an older Rocky with a son. A talented guy wants Rocky to coach him in boxing and he agrees, cause he thinks the boy may become like him and as a matter of fact, he sees himself in this boy while the truth is far from Rocky's understandings. He becomes obsessed by this guy and he coaches him every day all day long and the boy becomes a real boxer that cannot be beaten. Rocky forgets his family, doesn't have time for his son's problems and basically this is the new stuff here.
Well, not bad. Don't like a son introduction, don't like the different Rocky which is kinda stupid, cause Rocky has never been so smart to realize that he is split between coach and a father. He listens to everyone and agrees. At least this is what I have noticed in most everyday life scenes from the previous movies.
Why it is the worst? Well, it is needless in my opinion. It's not Rocky who fights. In fact I thought that the whole 5th movie could have been made into 2 or 3 scenes and put in the previous movies. It has nothing to do with a progress in the plot except for the son. Anyway, I respect it a lot, cause it is simply Rocky.
6 out of 10.