I went to see this film as soon as it came out, despite having never seen the five earlier 'prequels' I thought for his age, Sylvester Stallone, who was almost 60 years old when filming, was actually quite endearing and witty, not to mention a damn good writer!
The film which sees Stallone star as Rocky whilst also writing and directing it, follows up Rocky V as Stallone recalls: "he was negligent" in the production of Rocky V and many fans were disappointed at the presumed end of the saga, he too was disappointed and Rocky Balboa allowed Stallone to incorporate some of his own troubles and triumphs of recent times and end with a bang.
Since watching the sequel I have watched the former five films and did not realise there was so much more depth to them, the romance, humour and the tackling of political and social issues to mention just a few.
The final films sees Rocky struggle with the loss of his wife, his dwindling relationship with his son and fighting back his fighters instinct. I thought the film would be a bit of a disaster but I thought it was a great end to the series and actually quite realistic. The end of the film has an alternative ending which would have been far less convincing and I bet you can guess what that was if you have ever seen any of the other Rocky films.
Another note of interest with this film is the different colouring of the DVD cover in comparison to the five earlier film covers. This looks a lot more classic and stylish, it almost looks like a "winner" the classic black, white and gold, comparing to the more gritty black, white and red images from the former DVD covers.
The only one question I have is: does every ones copy of this DVD have the A half cut off from Balboa or is it actually meant to be like that? I have looked at a few and they all have that bad production or strange typographical design.
The film which sees Stallone star as Rocky whilst also writing and directing it, follows up Rocky V as Stallone recalls: "he was negligent" in the production of Rocky V and many fans were disappointed at the presumed end of the saga, he too was disappointed and Rocky Balboa allowed Stallone to incorporate some of his own troubles and triumphs of recent times and end with a bang.
Since watching the sequel I have watched the former five films and did not realise there was so much more depth to them, the romance, humour and the tackling of political and social issues to mention just a few.
The final films sees Rocky struggle with the loss of his wife, his dwindling relationship with his son and fighting back his fighters instinct. I thought the film would be a bit of a disaster but I thought it was a great end to the series and actually quite realistic. The end of the film has an alternative ending which would have been far less convincing and I bet you can guess what that was if you have ever seen any of the other Rocky films.
Another note of interest with this film is the different colouring of the DVD cover in comparison to the five earlier film covers. This looks a lot more classic and stylish, it almost looks like a "winner" the classic black, white and gold, comparing to the more gritty black, white and red images from the former DVD covers.
The only one question I have is: does every ones copy of this DVD have the A half cut off from Balboa or is it actually meant to be like that? I have looked at a few and they all have that bad production or strange typographical design.
Well worth a watch though if you haven't see it or even if you haven't seen any of the Rocky films, you never know you might enjoy it.
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