Rocky Balboa is a 2006 sports Drama and is the sixth and apparently final installment of the hugely successful "Rocky" series of movies starring Sylvester Stallone as the title role. ---------------------------------------- The Plot: Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone) has been retired from Boxing for around 20 years, content with life and now running a seemingly successful restaurant named "Adrian's" he spends his time running it and chatting with the clientele who come to hear his stories, however Rocky's wife Adrian ( Talia Shire ) died from Cancer several years prior and he misses her terribly, unable to really move ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes Film sequels can amaze and excite, Empire Strikes Back and Nutty Professor 2 being prime examples and sometimes they can stink the house out like a smoked mackerel stitched into the back of an enemies chair. Well it might surprise you that after 6 films this isn´t quite the turkey it could so easily have been. We have had the Rocky Series from its origins in 1975 when Sylvester Stallone wrote and directed the film about the loveable Italian American stereotype given a shot at the World Heavyweight Boxing title through to Rocky 5 when the washed out Rocky trains an up and coming bum similar to himself with horrible results. Rocky Bilboa ...  Read the complete review

Rocky balboa or Rocky 6! and it is surprisingly quite good, after the dreadful Rocky 5. This is well worth a couple of hours of your life and good entertainment for all. In this film we find Rocky running a modest eatery in his old neighbourhood , widowed and having left the boxing life behind him, he spends his evenings telling old boxing stories to his restaurant's guests. There is a real feel of the original 1976 'Rocky' in this film, the locations are the same, the same grittyness and pace, Rocky and pauly even re-visit the site of the old ice rink and remininise. Rocky is living on past memories. Then one day a tv station's computer ...  Read the complete review

It surprises many people when Sylvester Stallone says "it was more difficult to make the last Rocky, than the first", and considering in 1975 Sylvester Stallone was a nobody who hadn't had any substantial writing or acting credits, it's quite unbelievable. Like most Rocky films, the Italian Stallion's life has a parallel feel to it with Slys. Like Stallone, Rocky's prime is long gone and now he has to live the rest of his life knowing he'll never 'peak' again, and tries to do something about it. The film starts off in a cemetery with Rocky looking over the headstone of his beloved wife Adrian. He's a broken man who yearns for the past and didn't realise ...  Read the complete review

Just to complete my review of the whole Rocky series, although that should have stopped at the magnificent Rocky IV, I will now take a look at Rocky VI, better known as Rocky Balboa. Put quite simply, why make this film? The DVD itself is packed full of features and the feature length movie itself is in glorious high definition in this Blu-ray version, but the actual movie, you know the whole reason for buying the DVD, is just not Rocky as we have come to know and love it. The was the same with the equally disappointing Rocky V years ago. They will never be able to create the raw emotion and action of the first 4 Rocky films and should leave it at ...  Read the complete review