The movie is a definite winner any way you can look at it, even if the storyline needed some doctoring so that the events and situations that lead to the final fight would appear more credible. Still however, as it is, it's a gritty and moving character-driven drama with a deep humanity in it. And this feat can only be attributed to Stallone who wrote and directed the piece. There is a genuine sense of innocence that pervades the film and it is as intriguing as the final hyped-up fight, while the depressive view of a suffocating world that Rocky lives in easily brings to mind Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" at times. Thumbs up.
Review of Rocky Balboa
