Rocky V is the fifth entry in the series and this time Rocky Balboa returns from Russia to find out his money is gone and his brain is damaged, with that he retires and reopens Mickey's old gym, but waiting for him there is a hungry young fighter named Tommy Gunn and a scrupulous Don King type promoter named George Washington Duke.
This movie, in all honesty is nothing but a complete and total disaster, everything here feels completely forced and while it wants to return to the heartfelt roots of the first two movies, heart is what's missing from this film and the Rocky series always ALWAYS works best when it has heart, personal drive and determination at its centre.
And that was in all of the previous four movies, in the first film the drive was for Rocky to escape his down and out life in the slums of Philadelphia, stand up and say "I am" with a proud standing within himself, in Rocky II it was the realisation that boxing is the only thing that gives his life meaning and that he cannot deny it any longer no matter how hard he tries, Rocky III the realisation that he's lost the "eye of the tiger" his edge and that he can only get it back from an old enemy and in Rocky IV it was doing it all for a friend.
But do we get any of that inspiration that makes those films work, no we don't, instead we get a hockey family melodrama and a pitiful attempt to close off the series which also failed even at those tasks.
In the end, skip this chapter as it's by far the worst of the series, heck even Stallone himself has since disowned this entry in the series and hey I can't blame him so points for that but again, don't watch this movie 0 out of 5.
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