Review of Rocky V (1990) by Andrew I — 03 Sep 2011

Widely-considered the weakest of the Rocky series, it does have a lot wrong with it. For me, the Don King character is extremely irritating throughout, the old Fanfare For Rocky and Eye of the Tiger music is replaced with horrible MC Hammer and Elton John(!) which all gets a little too Lion King for my liking.

For too long, the film is concerned with the rise of Tommy Gunn with Rocky as his manager - we don't want to see Tommy Gunn win and Rocky on the sidelines! The title is Rocky! This is all remedied at the end with the inevitable fight between Rocky & Tommy Gunn (Vader vs Luke with Micky as a ghostly Ben Kenobi?), but it takes place in the street.

I suppose that sets it apart from the other films of the series, and I quite like the novelty of it, but what with the kid growing up and the tax problems, it was all rather bitty and slightly annoying.

Compared to a lot of modern films though, it's still not as bad as all that.