Stallone's directional guidelines missed the movie

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2007)

John G. Avildsen did a splendid job with Rocky I and i think that his idea with rocky V was to create more of a drama movie instead of a boxing movie , Rocky I was also more of a drama well all the films of rocky anyway but Rocky V had to be the ultimate drama movie with money problems , problems in the family etc. and then Tommy Gunn came in the life of Rocky with the same ambitions as Rocky and then we have a sympathy movie , with rocky training Tommy and the director wanted that the movie wasn't all about boxing and that was the big mistake , when you hear the name Rocky , you think about Apollo Creed , Clubber Lang , Ivan Drago , Mason " the line " Dixon and not about Adrian and Paulie or Butkuss but i have to say Rocky V is a heck of a drama movie ! Cheers Jens Naeyaert.