Tommy Gunn: You don't own me! You don't own me! Nobody does! I want my respect.
Rocky Balboa: Well come and get it!
Here it is, the Rocky movie that to most people is known rather as the skid mark of the franchise, a piece of lonely shit, the movie nobody likes or one of the worst movies of all time. Now I fully understand why most people dislike this movie, the new soundtrack, the fighter, Tony Ever's and well mainly because they wanted to take the franchise in a new direction and to be honest I liked that about this movie, it wasn't predictable or repeating the same thing (no offence at all to the other Rocky movies) Stallone…

The fifth instalment in the Rocky series, Rocky V finds Rocky Balboa in retirement & poverty after he suffers a serious brain injury from his previous fight and is reluctantly made to leave boxing. Also learning that his entire wealth is lost on the stock market, Rocky returns to his Pennsylvania neighbourhood with his family and after meeting a promising boxer, takes him under his wing. Things are set in motion when his protégé betrays him.

Written by Sylvester Stallone & directed by John G. Avildsen, the film reunites the team that was responsible for Rocky and now, they're also responsible for coming up with the worst chapter in the series for Rocky V is an uninspired, tedious & dull movie from start…

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Road to Creed 2
Step 5 of 7

Since I saw Rocky 5 for the first time today and know that the series will probably reach a proper conclusion with Rocky Balboa, the 6th entry, it's easy for me to write about it. However, I can well imagine how great the anger and disappointment of the audience must have been that Rocky 5 must have felt as the funeral of the series in 1990.

In general, the first half of the film has a touch of melancholy that I liked. You can tell that Rocky's career is coming to an end. A cameo of 83 year old Burgess Meredith as Mickey for a flashback underlines that the…

On reaching the somewhat hysterical zenith of the fourth film, the only way Sylvester Stallone could go for another round in the ring with Rocky was inward, pulling back from the exuberant, mad heights of Soviet Russia and throwing Balboa back onto the grungy streets of his native Philadelphia. Rocky V is the clearest attempt since the beginning to take the character, and the franchise, back to its roots; Stallone pitches the guy much more down on his luck, everything he fought for taken away from him, lost without purpose given his actual fighting days are behind him, and looks to recapture the same sense of edgy, streetwise underdog charm the first picture had. It's no coincidence he invited back…

Rocky V is the only entry in the franchise that I never got around to seeing, mostly because I don't know if I've ever heard anything good about it. I honestly don't have a problem with this movie at all. Its far from insultingly bad and I may even like it a bit more than Rocky IV.

Rocky V brings back John G. Avildsen, the director of the first movie after Sylvester Stallone directed 2, 3 and 4. I'd assume Avildsen was brought back to bring the franchise back to its roots, and he does in some ways. There are some touches of nostalgia as Rocky loses all his money and goes back to Philadelphia.

This film is criticized because…

HORRIBLE! It literally tried to recapture the first movie while also doing some weird 90’s trends that did not mix. The story is kind of stupid when you think about it. Rocky meets Tommy, he forged a bond with the a kid and just replaces his actual son without knowing and they just let it happen until shit hits the fan, Tommy just double crosses Rocky out of nowhere instead of trying to make it organic. Rocky’s kid rightfully gets pissed about it but for some reason he also stays silent about it until he turns into an edgelord alpha male and all Rocky had to do was talk him and that part of the plot got solved no problem.…

I wouldn’t call this downright bad but it’s deeply disappointing for one reason: there’s a good film in there somewhere. To be more specific, that good film is Creed and I’m glad they revisited the idea of Rocky having a “wayward apprentice” with much greater success because it’s a great idea. This doesn’t take advantage of the idea’s potential. The apprentice, Tommy Gunn, is a meathead with a shit haircut. This film’s cartoon character is George Washington Duke, a blatant Don King parody who sounds like a Hideo Kojima character and lures Tommy away from Rocky’s watchful eye. Neither of these new characters have the charm or charisma of those that came before them, which is appropriate.

There’s an attempt…