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Rocky Balboa 7.5/10
Am I a complete moron or was this a pretty entertaining flick? I've seen all the Rocky movies, always hoping there will be some carryover from the sensation I had watching the original in the theater when I was 6 years old. The nostalgia factor worked like a charm on me, so I must be getting old.
Sly's directing was excellent up until the fight sequence, where he substituted fast cuts and silly variations in color and grain in a ham-fisted attempt to add a "youthful vitality" to the typical Rocky fight. It came across as an old man's half-baked (and failed) effort to contemporize a film that didn't need it.
I'd rank it 2nd overall in the series.
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