Rocky, what a great movie that was. A story about an illiterate Italian part-time boxer part-time thug who get's a shot to fight the champ.
Stallone, he can make some great movies: First Blood, Rocky, Copland, Oscar...wait scratch that last one. The thing that irks me about Stallone is that he will make a great movie like First Blood, and then make two god awful sequels until the money teat runs dry. It's a shame that 95% of his work is in cash cow, all hype no substance films that are complete garbage.
Rocky V is a prime example of Stallone's doing anything for money. The story is that while Rocky was off in Russia giving Dolph Lundgren the dirty sanchez, Pauly accidentally gave Rocky's accountant power of attorney. The accountant invested all of Rocko's capital in himself and ran with it. Rocky's broke again. Even though Mickey, ey-ey-yo-yo Rocko's old trainer, was fatally pushed by Mr. T two movies ago some how it comes to light that he left Rocky his gym shortly after Rocky finds out he's broke.
Now more like the blue collor demographic that this movie is shooting for, it becomes a lesson about the evils of big money in boxing when Rocky grooms a protege, Tommy Morrison, who grabs the interest of a Don King without the hair. The Don King figure manages to corrupt Morrison from rocky with that evil money. I can't remember Rocky's reasoning for not wanting Morrison to get the money, but I think it ran along the lines that you shouldn't do something just for the money. Should have taken your own advice and not made the movie. Anyway, Morrison becomes the villain and Stallone has to redeem himself by going round and round in a street fight with Morrison. Oh yeah, I guess Sly took one donkey punch too many in Russia, and his doctors forbid him from fighting.
As you can probably guess, Adrian, cried through the whole fight as any sane wife would do. Rocky wins and he even gets to punch the Don King-esque guy.
What can I say, it's terrible. The plots have more holes in it than a wheel of swiss cheese. The acting, well the actors don't do their own boxing, the boxers do their own acting if you get what I'm saying. You can really miss this one, maybe even you should miss this one.
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