"You're all heart Rock, you know that?" - Paulie

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 1999)

This movie has heart, lots of it! I love a good fight scene as well as the next man but if you wanted a fighter with no heart (or brains) you should have seen a Van Damme movie instead!!
Rocky's saga spans 5 movies with this being the final instalment. He started out as a thumb breaker for a local gangstar with low quality ring brawls with bums for extra money...but he believed in himself as a person way back then.
He believed he was good enough to go out with Adrian in the first movie, in the second movie he was good enough to be a husband and father, in the third he was good enough to start from scratch with a man who had previously been his opponent, in the fourth he was good enough to win over a hostile crowd.
You'll notice that what I have taken from the first 4 films is not the ring fighting prowess of ROCKY but his heart in each film. He wins ring fights because he wins life's battles first! Look at Mike TYSON, he was an unbeatable force in the ring but outside it he was pummelled by everyone....managers, ex-wives, beauty pageant entrants etc he never won one battle in life outside the ring, that's why despite his fight paycheck,...he has nothing!
At the end of Rocky V, Rocky has no money, hence the line "I'll sue!", "For What?" (WHACK!) but he has his pride, his wife, his son's respect and most importantly, his life to go on with. He's a winner because he has people he loves and they love him. Titles and belts don't mean that much when you TRULY recognise what your family are.
The Rocky saga ..... many pale imitators but no one will match the heart!