{"id":206,"date":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docwiggly.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/30\/rockys-final-round-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T15:29:00","slug":"rockys-final-round-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/12\/30\/rockys-final-round-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky's final round, movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocky Balboa<\/a> movie review
\nYo, Adriane!?
\nBy Josh Board<\/p>\n

Okay, Rocky Balboa doesn\u2019t say that in this one. She\u2019s dead. No, I didn\u2019t spoil anything for ya. You realize that in the opening credits when you don\u2019t see her name. Maybe she thought it was ridiculous that they continue to make Rocky\u2019s with the a 60-year-old actor pretending to still box (hey, George Foreman boxed in his 40s, but he\u2019s a rare exception, considered by many the strongest puncher in heavyweight history). If there\u2019s another Rocky, I better see him come into the ring in a wheelchair, that has a ring that is ramp accessable.<\/p>\n

This movie isn\u2019t bad. It\u2019s well acted. It\u2019s not corny and it\u2019s very realistic the way things are done. The problem is, all this ground has been covered before. Rocky having problems with the son that\u2019s living under his shadow (see Rocky V). Having problems in his love life (see Rocky, Rocky II, III); problems with the alcoholic brother-in-law (the talented Burt Young, that surprised me with a roll in Transamerica). And, of course, the predictable fight between a guy that is clearly better, but with more cockiness and less heart, then Rocky (see all previous Rocky films). With so many arrogant athletes today making the headlines, the way Mason Dixon (yes, that\u2019s really his opponents name) is written, seems very believable. And the cameo by Mike Tyson, in which he starts a fight with Dixon as he walks into the ring, has you wondering if it\u2019s real, too.<\/p>\n

So, you won\u2019t see a bad movie if you go to see this. You\u2019ll just be seeing much of the same. The boxing scenes have improved dramatically, from the days of swings that missed by about a foot that we were supposed to believe landed. Or, that Rocky could take 10 punches in a row from a heavyweight fighter and not end up dying or in a coma. I\u2019d say if you\u2019re a boxing nut, and you didn\u2019t get enough with Cinderella Man, go check it out. Everyone else can stick to the Ultimate fighting on cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Maybe she thought it was ridiculous that they continue to make Rocky\u2019s with the a 60-year-old actor pretending to still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-rockys-final-round"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":374,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2007\/09\/26\/the-black-dahlia-movie-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":0},"title":"the Black Dahlia movie review","author":"admin","date":"September 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"[indy movie review]Black Dahlia MovieDVD \u00a92007 Director: Ramzi Abed http:\/\/www.blackdahliamovie.com http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/blackdahliamovie indy movie review by Kent Manthie Earlier this year, indie filmmaker Ramzi Abed took a really outr\u00e9 turn in his latest work, the hallucinatory Black Dahlia Movie. 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