An absolute dud

Rating: 3/10 (4 February 2005)

Rocky V 1990 *
Despite suffering brain damage (to what?), Rocky returns home triumphantly only to discover that Paulie has accidentely squandered the entire fortune. So he goes back on the streets, down on his luck, etc. He starts training a new guy, in the meantime ignoring his family. Then the new guy turns on him. The fifth in the series is, well, absolutely terrible. It's boring and pointless no matter how you look at it. It's also very, very stupid. And inconsistent. And the climactic fight scene is just badly done. In fact, the only really good thing about this movie is the excellent acting, which might have saved it if Stallone had put just one good thing into his script (although there are a couple of good scenes early on). I guess this was just made during the time when Stallone was making duds, and he had to make the Rocky series join the crowd. That's all I can come up with.