Rocky 5 (DVD)

Rocky V (Film Review Only). =========================== The Plot. ------------------------- Rocky returns from Russia after his fight with Ivan Drago only to be confronted with more than the hero's welcome. Health and financial problems lead to Rocky becoming a trainer at the gym Mighty Mick's which was left to him by his friend and former trainer Mickey Goldmill, where he soon discovers a new and talented boxer Tommy Gunn. ₪ ₪ ₪ ...
...film is directly continuing from Rocky IV with us joining Rocky in his hotel suite after the fight. After the party is over, they head back to America to face the waiting media. Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) and Adrian (Talia Shire) are greeted at the airport by there son Rocky Jnr (Sage Stallone) and they head of to give there long awaited press conference. There is a surprise in store for Rocky as he answers the media's questions when unexpected George ...

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Rocky has the good life now he defeated his last opponent and is now living life to the full in his big house and mounds of money, that is until they loose it all! Pauley signed over power of attorney to their accountant who has lost the money and now Rocky and family are forced to move back to their old house and lifestyle. Rocky is challenged to fight but as he is ill from all his beatings he is in retirement and unable to fight on medical grounds. ...
...Tommy turns up and asks Rocky to train him. Unsure at first Rocky sends him on his way but soon he agrees to the job and Tommy is soon part of the family. Tommy does well and soon he feels ready for the title fight but Rocky thinks he needs more experience. Tommy is getting a taste of the good life from a boxing promoter who offers him what Rocky wont. Will Tommy betray Rocky and go with the promoter and just what consequences will Tommy’s role in ...

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...(14 years after starting the Rocky format), this 5th in line sees Rocky finally retire from boxing due to some severe hammerings from previous fights… **BRIEF PLOT** With Rocky, (played by Sylvester Stallone) becoming Bankrupt, due to some very unfortunate dealings from his accountant, he and his wife Adrian, (played by Talia Shire) and there son, Robert, (played by Stallones real life son, Sage), are forced to move back to the slums they came from ...
...(played by Richard Gant) offers Rocky a chance to fight an up and coming new star called Union Cane, (played by Michael Williams), but due to bad health, after many severe beatings during his career, Rocky finally retires and gives up the world title…only his ego has other ideas….. When Rocky visits his old stomping ground, the gymnasium where he trained and the streets he ran around, he spots a future for himself in the form of a young fighter ...

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...and in this case it's Rocky V. Picking up immediately after the big fight at the end of the previous movie, Rocky is in the midst of celebrating his victory over Ivan Drago. But wait, all is not well. His hands start shaking uncontrollably, and he becomes confused and disoriented, apparently confusing Adrian with his dead manager Mickey. Returning to the States, things only get worse when Rocky finds out his double-dealing attorney has invested his ...
...toll. With no other option, Rocky and his family are forced to move back to their old neighbourhood in Philadelphia. Everything in Rocky's life is going backwards. He reopens Mickey's gym, moves into his old house, and even starts wearing his old clothes. His boxing days seem to be behind him, until one day he's approached by flamboyant boxing promoter George Washington Duke (clearly a parody of Don King) who wants to get him back in the ring despite ...

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Out of all the Rocky sequels, Rocky 5 is one of the best ones, and it's the last one in the series. Even more surprising is that the film has good acting, great scenes, and it's very realistic too. Sylvester Stallone even wrote the story for it. After his last fight,with the Russian Drago, Balboa (Stallone) starts to feel pain, which turns out to be a concussion to his brain which has left him in pain. As added damaged Balboa, finds out that Uncle ...
...whose number 1. Rocky 5 is more intense than the horrible Rocky 4 movie and has better acting. In another scene, Balbao starts having flashbacks to his glory years with his manager Micki (Burgess Meredith) , it's a very sentimental moment. In another scene I like, is when Adrian talks to Rocky about how much she loves him and how no matter tough things get, she will always stick by him. This is actually in all the Rocky movies, Rocky gets hurt, ...

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...the TV Guide and realised Rocky 5 was on, I felt this sudden urge to write a review about it. I have watched Rocky so many times, but what came to my mind was one of my History lessons a couple of years a go. I hope you will find the new spin on Rocky 5 interesting. I could write about the film, which I am sure most of you have watched. Yes, it’s very good, Stallone is very good and after a long and traumatic road come up triumph. But, I just ...
...emotions. Where as Rocky is a man who has triumphed and will triumph again after he conquers the ‘bad’ Russian and the country. It’s a one man crusade against Russia and of course Sly is triumphant. At the end when Sly wins, it is a sign of the Americans winning and bowing into the Russians. Subconsciously, people watched this film all around the world and took in the view of the Russians surely people weren’t that naïve ...

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Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is back in Rocky V (5), You may think Rocky's boxing career was over after he retired, But now he has met a young amateur boxer he has become his manager, What happens in this one is Rocky loses a lot of money because of something Paulie (Rocky's Friend) did some how he lost millions of Rocky's money, So Rocky goes back to where he started and gets Mick's old boxing gym back up and running, shortly in to the film rocky ...
...become big, at first Rocky refuses but after he See's what this lad can do he decided to Manage him, he trains him and trains him and makes him good the boxer young amateur he is training (Tommy Gunn) keeps winning with KO's and he wants to go for the title, But Rocky keeps holding him back but one day he meets a Manager that bribes him and pays him and gives him a shot at the title and he throws everything he had with Rocky away, It ends with a ...

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...even know there was a Rocky V. I thought the saga ended with Rocky beating the Russian powerhouse (in highly unrealistic fashion). Personally, I think they would have been better off leaving it at that. The storyline in this one is different to the others, but a little strange. Basically, Rocky ends up bankrupt because of some tax problems and is forced to retire from boxing because of brain damage. So he returns to the place he came from where. ...
...some random hopeful who wants Rocky to train him. He does and ultimately his young protege dumps him for the promise of more money. Still with me? Anyway, it all turns very nasty and the two of them end up having a bare knuckle fist fight in an alley somewhere (there also just happens to be a television camera there to show it live). Rocky wins (surprise surprise), though nearly kills himself in the process. This is by far the weakest Rocky. The ...

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...in law Paulie's nose. So Rocky has to got back to his home town, into a tiny house, and his kid has to go to a normal school. Rocky has been diagnosed with brain damage, so can't get a licence to fight, so he can't make his money back. A young fighter, Billy Gunn approaches him for some help and Rocky agrees to train him, even though it means not spending any time with his son. Sylvester Stallone does a good job here, slurring his words more than ...

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...of the series. This time Rocky (Stallone) loses everything thanks (or no thanks) to brother-in-law Pauly (Young) and his poor decision-making in economic affairs. Now Rocky is forced back to the unsavory life which was shown in parts I and II. He finds a second chance when he runs into young boxer Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison) and decides to train him. However, Gunn has dreams of stardom and does not believe that Rocky has the brains to lead him to ...
...and soon his relationship with Rocky falls apart. Rocky meanwhile is slowly showing signs of permanent brain damage as he reverts back to being a moron and sees visions of his former manager (Meredith) in his daydreams. By the end a showdown between Rocky and Tommy Gunn, in Rocky's neighborhood, is the only solution to this film's under-achieving script. The direction, by John G. Avildsen, never does take off and the film is grounded throughout due ...

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...boxing films about gutsy fighter Rocky Balboa. This film lives up to its previuos editions of Rocky.....action...drama...emotion.....and fights as dramatic as the crash of the titanic. Rocky is back in his home town almost reminecsent to rocky 1 which saw a rooky boxer fighting at local level taken up to the lime light a greedy boxer after some publicity. This film is different, and is brought to life when a controvertial boxing game brings together ...

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