Unimpressed

Rating: 2/10 (28 June 2006)

I would have to say that as far as the standard that was set for this movie by its predecessors, it was pretty bad. If the moral of the story was that you don't need riches to be happy in life, then fine. But I don't really like how they portray this man who has "fought war's in the ring" at the end of his career, with nothing to show for it. The worst part about it is that of all the people Rocky became friends with, and all the fans he made over the years, he had no one to help him back to the top.
I mean, were was Apollo's family during all of this? Considering the fact that Rocky went all the way to the Soviet Union to defeat Goliath (Drago) because he killed her husband, I would have thought Apollo's wife would have helped him out a little in his financial situation. Personally I don't think that this movie was necessary, and that the writers were basically trying to milk the Rocky story as much as they could. Hopefully this new movie is better, but seeing as how the Rocky in the movie is around 50 years old, and Stallone in real life is right around 60, I doubt it will be that great.