Rocky V

One captivating flashback about a declaration of love that we all have known for so many years, an excellent performance by Talia Shire, and that's it. Otherwise, Rocky V is so silly that it's sometimes unbearable. Everything is so blatantly contrived, full of cliches, and with a minimum of action. I understand the gap between this and the next entry because after such a fiasco, no one wanted to dig into Rocky again. Rocky meets a promising boxer on the street, at first, he doesn't even want to talk to him, but then somehow convinces him. They go to dinner, and Rocky, being a good guy, immediately offers him shelter – his son's room (?). For months, he only focuses on Tommy, his son seems to not exist even though he gets beaten up several times, robbed, and so on. Rocky is just like that, he gives to the poor whether they are his blood or not. And it's not just that, here Rocky Balboa is completely washed-up hero, he's no longer the endearing dumb guy with a good heart, he's a dull walking figure, which is quite regrettable. And even the final fight is nothing special. (04.05.2007)

The beginning and the ending are great, the return to old familiar places, Stallone's never-giving-up fighter is perfect, and I was pleased to see Bill Conti back. But that horrible plot with the young boxer and the son... Was that necessary? Up until this episode, Rocky has either avoided clichés altogether, or delivered them in an easily digestible manner. But this time it got stuck between my teeth. I'm glad the saga didn't end with this not-so-good entry, but that it was capped off with a more than worthy follow-up. (06.01.2016)

Well, well. It's the fifth installment, and it could be expected that it would be a bit weaker than the previous films. After all, maintaining quality even in the fifth part is quite demanding. Stallone decided to give his hero a midlife crisis and let him go through personal drama and a family crisis. In addition, he also wants to become a manager and discover how corrupt the world is. It's all a bit too much at once, big fights are gone, everything is intimate and actually quite boring, and above all predictable. Well, the previous films were predictable too, but this is just a bit forced. You feel like Rocky is a completely different character here. But the ending is still awesome and has a slightly different style. Plus, then the sixth part came. (18.03.2014)

A series that became famous for its final battles in the ring, in front of a packed audience, accompanied by epic music, almost ends with a street fight between a loser and a scoundrel. That's how childhood heroes turn out. The sixth part came a second before twelve. (18.03.2006)