
Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweight champ has been stolen and lost on the stockmarket by his accountant. His boxing days over, Rocky begins to coach an up-and-coming fighter named Tommy Gunn. Rocky cannot compete, however, with the high salaraies and glittering prizes being offered t... (Full plot summary below)
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Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweight champ has been stolen and lost on the stockmarket by his accountant. His boxing days over, Rocky begins to coach an up-and-coming fighter named Tommy Gunn. Rocky cannot compete, however, with the high salaraies and glittering prizes being offered to Gunn by other managers in town.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumTime to hang up the boxing gloves, ol' Rocky. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelRocky V takes him out of his gilded cage and back to the director (John G. Avildsen), the settings and the underdog's outlook that made him famous in the first place. It's a smart move. There's life in the old boy yet. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldWhen the underdog always wins he's not much of an underdog anymore, and the narrative cartwheels Sylvester Stallone has turned over the years to put Rocky in that position have peeled away the novelty. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThis sweetly downtrodden, punch-drunk Rocky is often appealing to watch. Yet as a character, he doesn’t have much drive — and neither, I’m afraid, does the movie. |
| EmpireRob BeattieBemused out of the ring and brutal in it, Rocky has always been an uncomfortable hero, and it says something for Stallone's skill as a writer that he's been able to keep him going this long. Given the restrictions of the formula, Rocky V is a fitting — even graceful — way to finally hang up the gloves. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe dramatic moves are so obvious and shopworn that not even the star's mournful basset-hound expressions can redeem them. |
| Matt's Movie ReviewsMatthew PejkovicThe last 30 min make Rocky V a worthwhile watch, and even though there are numerous flaws, it's a rather engrossing film and the most underrated of the Rocky movies. |
| FulvueDrive-in.comChuck O'LearyRocky loses his fortune, moves back to the old neighborhood and neglects his son while training an ultimately ungrateful young boxer. A manufactured attempt to capture the spirit of the original. What's intended as high drama is cloying and silly. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewWhereas the first and far superior Rocky had real heart, this tries and fails to have brains. |
| BBC.comAlmar HaflidasonLike watching some favourite relative die, Stallone subjects the viewer to a miserable and pathetic end for such an enduring character. |