Review of Rocky V (1990) by Habibiehakim — 25 Feb 2023

I like the first 20 minutes of Rocky V, but then the rest of the film was just a flat out boring film fills with uninteresting characters and story, my major problem was Tommy, I just cannot click with him for a single second even when the first time they show him, even when he's still friends with Rocky I just never get him, Tommy did not work both in characters and appearance, he's not a good villain like Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, and Drago, in Rocky V we were going back to a very familiar places, the underground, and it's another things I like was that we can finally see "the old Rocky" back again, and Sylvester Stallone really did the same old Rocky performance, dialogue, style, gesture, and personality and I really really like it, I also like some of the throwback like the priest, and I really do appreciate some of the few scenes and on how it ended I definitely not expecting it and I do appreciate it but again at the same time every time I see Tommy I always feel like he is just not the guy, loved seeing him get beat up but when he's face shown, it was a no, another conflict was Rocky and his son relationship that cracks also did not work for me, couple or three boring long sequence, cheesy moments, and again Tommy, Tommy, and Tommy was just uhhh, so overall Rocky V was simply the worst one in the franchise so far, it could've work if at the very least they got a better actor to play Tommy, and definitely a better story too, it's disappointing to say that overall Rocky V was indeed a bad movie.