Rocky V

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Completed hubby's collection, 2008-12-16
I purchased this dvd for him as a christmas gift it was the last one he needed to have th complete set of Rocky movies. It arrived quickly and I have no complaints.

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wrong DVD delivered, 2008-12-15
I have waited for the holiday to come to watch the Rocky V with my son. Therefore, it wasn't until yesterday I opened up the DVD box to watch it. Then I found out it was wrong movie. Something like "The Witches" and "The never ending story" were in the box. It was quite ironic. I hope this was just accidental wrapping mistake.

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The Ultimate Feel Bad Movie, 2008-12-11
Where as"Rocky"was"The Ultimate Feel Good Movie",this is"The Ultimate Feel Bad Movie".How depressing,Rocky looses everything,and is forced to go back to slums.Excuse me,but what happened to attaining the American dream.That was what was so great about Rocky,was that he attained success.Now Rocky is A pennyless bum again,c'mon!And to be quite truthfully Rocky got stale years ago,so avoid this movie like the plague.The,hopefully,last chapter"Rocky Balboa",at least let The character have some dignity.As far as I'm considered this film never existed."Rocky Balboa"is in my book"Rocky 5".Terrible chapter in the Rocky Saga.

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unrealized potential, 2008-11-26
Rocky's returned from Russia (Rocky IV), with permanent brain damage curtailing his boxing career. But his comfortable retirement is likewise cut short when the accountant Paulie hired absconds with all their money, and they have to move back to the old neighborhood. A slick fight promoter nags him to return to the ring, and he resists, but sees a way to recover some of his glory when a young boxer asks Rocky to train him. br / br /Rocky gets so caught up in the training that he neglects his family, and his son gets in trouble, and then everything is solved by a quick father/son chat and a fistfight outside a bar. br / br /Mostly, it was boring. The beginning of the movie was just flashback after flashback of the previous movies, interspersed with repeated nagging from the promoter and incessant reminders that if he fights, he'll die. Adrian was her usual annoying, whiny self, and Paulie was more useless than ever. The son (who was several years older than he was in the previous movie--presumably because he's played by Sage Stallone) was unrealistic. br / br /There was quite a lot of unrealized potential in the movie. If some of those interminable flashbacks from the first half and training montages from the second had been cut, there might have been time to develop a more realistic conflict resolution with the son, and a more meaningful climax to the movie than a fistfight. br / br /Yes, I know, the fighting is a big part of the series, but it's pointless without a meaningful context. I don't think it's just a girly reaction on my part, because my 3 guys didn't like it either.

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rocky lives on, 2008-09-29
I grew up on the rocky movies and I love them to this day. I now have all six rocky movies that came out and they will be one of the all time greats.