Brain Damage???

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2002)

What in the world has happened in this movie franchise? In my opinion the story ends in the beginning when Rocky is told by his doctor that he has brain damage. Brain Damage??? We'd known this about Rocky since the first one. Suddenly we go back to recycle scenes of Rocky struggling to live life in Philly. "Hey yo. I did that in the first two." While it wasn't as hokey as Rocky IV, it didn't bring the redemptive quality at the end like the fourth one. Rocky fighting in the streets? Let's take him to the real barrio and see how he does. "Yo Adrienne. They got pointy things. Aaagghh."