Monday, March 26, 2012

Rocky Balboa

Am I the only one who thought this movie was painful to watch? Major plot holes, huge disappointment. Had I not seen this movie about ten years ago when it was the last rocky picture I would have possibly enjoyed this film. Aside from the initial problems with the premise, a sixty year old man boxing the twenty two year old heavyweight champ, the rest of the film is cheesy, lame and pointless. Am I the only one that remembers him having serious brain damage in the previous Rocky? How the heck can he box now after the damage would certainly be worse as he aged. He would be a virtual vegetable. The relationship he has with his son seems unreasonable and aside from that, his son is not a person I would even care to know. Rocky was the heavyweight champ and now he lives in what looks like a dilapidated shack, yet he has enough money to own an upscale Italian restaurant. Like the previous Rocky, he takes in a surrogate son because he has problems relating to his own son, yet after one conversation with his son the boy is suddenly in his corner and forgotten about living in shadow, he simply resigns to it. Don't waste your time with this one.

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