I waited to see it and blah

Rating: 2/10 (28 July 2004)

Rocky 1 and 2 remain the best. Rocky 3 started with the ridiculous stories and writing. I waited till 1987 to see Rocky 4 and it was so-so. Rocky telling the Russians that they can change? Pretty lame, I watch it now and wince. Let's see... Rocky 5 came out in 1990 and I didn't have any interest in seeing it until it was the only thing on a week ago, 14 years later. Boy was I surprised at how bad it was, worse than I thought it would be.
For one thing, I had pictured it being the end of Rocky's fighting and thought he was going to be the trainer for Tommy through the whole movie, sharing victory with Tommy through a manager's perspective as he wins in the end. Boy was I wrong. Tommy quits Rocky and joins Don King's clone. Does Sly enjoy having a big mouthed black nemesis in all his boxing flicks? Okay, 4 out of 5. And why they stick with Pauly the loser is beyond me. Rocky 5 is a testosterone overdose as Balboa ends up in a long overdrawn fist fight with Tommy in the streets as everyone watches. This time Rocky's son does the Adrian look as he watches the news showing it all on TV. I was surprised Stu Nahan wasn't there with the commentary. Rocky sounds as dumb as ever in this movie. Does all the years of leading with his head make him regressively talk even more like an illiterate idiot from New York?