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Rocky Balboa tagline: It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
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| Directors: Sylvester Stallone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 out of 58,841 votes |
“Rocky Balboa” Movie Review
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Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement to step into the ring for the last time and face the heavyweight champ Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon.
Best Movie of 2006 – Oscar worthy folks!
I hear talk of Leonardo DiCaprio possibly receiving an Oscar for his performance in Blood Diamond?! I apologize in advance for saying this, but come on…DiCaprio trying to put on the accent is not convincing whatsoever! What is convincing then, might you ask? Rocky Balboa, that’s what! Sylvester is the one that should be nominated for an Oscar folks. Sylvester put his heart and soul into this film, and it shows. One of the best movies that I have ever seen, in all honesty. I can’t think of one single bad thing to say about this film. I hope it does very well at the box office, because it deservedly should. Great script, great plot, great acting, wonderful surroundings/great camera shots & color of the city of Philly, the list could go on for days. $6? I would’ve paid twice that to see this film. I’m 27 years old, but no one is ever too old for Rocky Balboa. Wonderful closure to one of the best movie franchises in movie history, thank you Sylvester for everything that you’ve put into Rocky over the years. Hats off to you my friend
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Very Good Send Off
Rocky Balboa First off this film is very good. It is definitely not a classic like the first Rocky but it is just as good as the second film. It is very slow paced and is more dialogue driven then the other Rocky films.
Spoilers The film begins showing Mason Dixon beating X-Cell for a title defense. He is getting booed as people do not think he is a real champion. The camera then goes to Rocky getting out of bed in the early morning. He feeds his turtles and visits Adrian’s Grave. He sits and stares at the grave with Paulie by his side.
Rocky now drives a large white van. He owns a restaurant named Adrians. He spends his nights telling old fight stories of him and Apollo Creed and telling stories of Mickey in the gym. His regular patron is Spider Rico, played once again by Pedro Lovell. Lovell plays the part wonderfully and actually has a fairly large supporting role.
In a very emotional scene Rocky and Paulie visit Adrian’s grave on her anniversary and also visit the remains of the ice skating rink. He also goes to the pet shop and looks at Mickey’s Gym, saying ‘How You Doing Mick’. He has flashbacks of Adrian going into his apartment on there first date. This scene plays with a great score by Conti and is so touching.
Following the anniversary Rocky goes to the Lucky Seven Tavern which is operated by Little Marie. Geraldine Hughes and Stallone have excellent chemistry and she was an excellent choice for the role. Rocky is hassled by some punks outside the tavern and he ‘takes care of business’. Hughes is fantastic in these scenes. James Francis Kelly ‘Steps’ is shortly after introduced. Although the character meant well it probably would have been better top use his screen time to something else. The character was mediocre as was the actor who played him. ‘One scene when Rocky picked out his new dog with him kind of dragged on a bit’ There are many emotional scenes in the film with Rocky and Paulie. One scene is absolutely heart breaking as Rocky completely breaks down. He says about Adrians death ‘I never thought it would be this hard’. Stallone and Young could win Oscars for this film. Young is absolutely brilliant and Stallone is excellent. They have never been closer. One of Young’s most memorable scenes is when he is fired from his job at the meat plant. He looks so depressed and plays it excellently.
Some great Stallone scenes include when he is attempting to get back his boxing license and those numerous scenes with his Son. Milo Ventilimia does an OK job in the role but in my opinion appeared to be intimated by Stallone. He was a weak character choice and didn’t appear to be to convincing.
Following getting his license Rocky must convince his son that it is OK for him to fight. He then goes to Vegas for a press conference with Dixon and his trainer. ‘By the way Harry Sanders is terrific as Dixons trainer’ We then go into the training montage which got a clapping applause by the crowd. It was short but very sweet. On the eve of the fight Marie visits Rocky in his hotel room to give him Adrians picture. It was very touching and extremely emotional.
Following this the much anticipated fight takes place. It is shorter then the others and yes Rocky does come out to ‘High Hopes’. The fight was very real but also very different then the other films.
The fight hit its pinnacle in the last round when you think Rocky might have been killed, he gets on one knee and then it happens, he sees Adrian and Mickey tells him to ‘get up’ in a flashback. It is terrific and is a great piece to this training montage.
Don’t wanna give to much else away. But this film is superb. It is not as good as the original but who really thought it would be. It is very similar to Rocky II and I would rank it as ties right now as the second best entry of the series. Those expecting Rocky III or Rocky IV would be extremely disappointed. The acting is very good by all involved. Sanders, Tarver and Burton are very good, Young, Stallone and Hughes are excellent and Milo and Kelly are mediocre.
Overall 3 ВЅ out of 4 stars!!
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Stallone has written and performed a minor miracle here!!
This new ROCKY is a truly fitting finale to the saga of Rocky Balboa. Always likable, usually stirring and entertaining (of course, I’m not acknowledging there was a Rocky V), this version has replaced macho with heart. In a glorious, pitch perfect performance of a revered Champ in the twilight of a now lonely, unfulfilled life, Stallone is actually amazing. I didn’t think he still had this kind of heartfelt performance in him. He has written, directed and performed this work with the insight of a person who has endured all the ups and downs that a career can experience.
The setting is familiar, the characters have been thinned down to only the dependably irritating Paulie, the haunting memory of his beloved Adrian, his withdrawn and overshadowed son and a struggling acquaintance from his past. All the performances are fine, but this is about Stallone in full on Rocky mode. He exudes the melancholy of a life that has lost meaning, while not unpleasant, just not connected. His revelation that he wants to ‘like fight’ doesn’t seem weird or unnatural.
Some of the film’s conventions to get him back in the ring, with the current undefeated champ no less, are achieved quickly and stretch our believability, but once that ‘Rocky Theme’ (and as I sit here, I’m getting a goose bump or two) blares out of the sound system, you are getting ‘READY TO RUMBLE!!!!’ The fight sequences, which have always been cartoonishly brutal, mock the limits of human endurance and insanely exciting, deliver once again. But its the insight that Stallone brings to this script, his heartfelt ’speeches’ to the Licensing board, his son and of course, Paulie, that are the real knockouts in the film.
I am so glad this turned out to be the fitting farewell that an icon like Rocky and Sylvester both deserve.
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‘Rocky Balboa’ – It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
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