Movie -- ROCKY BALBOA

Director - Sylvester Stallone

Release Date: 20 December 2006

Genre: Action | Sport

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Geraldine Hughes, Milo Ventimiglia

Summary:

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has retired from boxing, mourns for his wife Adrian who died of cancer, and runs a restaurant in his old neighborhood in Philadelphia where he entertains the patrons with the old stories of his fights. But something is nagging at him, and he wants to return to the ring and do some small fights in the hope to exorcise his demons.

Rocky Balboa DVD Cover

Rocky Balboa DVD Cover

In a TV show, a computer-simulated fight between Rocky in his prime and current unbeat heavyweight champion Mason “The Line” Dixon (Antonio Tarver) ends with Rocky winning. Dixon, who is not very popular in the boxing community, is annoyed, and his promoters set up a show-fight between Mason Dixon and the aging Rocky Balboa.
Assisted by Paulie (Burt Young), his son Rocky jr. (Milo Ventimiglia) and Tony “Duke” Evers (Tony Burton), Rocky prepares for his last great fight in the traditional Rocky-style …

Review: A good movie, but not as close as good as the other parts were… Sylvester Stallone is too old for this part, the movie is more of drama than action or sport as it used to be.

My Honest Rating: 6/10


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