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Trust Weighted
Very Good
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71
Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary -
Very Good
3.5
Amazingly, this is the first Rocky I’ve ever sat through, even though R1 came out when I was in high school. This is certainly a grand valedictory for Sly’s seminal character.
Acting -
Good
3.0
Male Stars -
Good
3.0
Female Stars -
Good
3.0
Female Costars -
Good
3.0
Male Costars -
Good
3.0
Film -
Very Good
3.5
Direction -
Very Good
3.5
Dialogue -
Very Good
3.5
Music -
Very Good
3.5
Visuals -
Very Good
3.5
Edge -
Tame
1.5
Sex
Innocent
1.0
Downright chaste.
Violence
Fierce
2.0
Rock 'em Sock 'em boxing, complete with occaisional bloody spit and painful exertions.
Rudeness
Polite
1.5
As gentle as the City of Brotherly Love's dark side gets, a South Side fairy tale.
Reality -
Surreal
2.4
Circumstantial -
Surreal
3.0
So a heavyweight champ who's 33 and Oh is considered a bust? Sure. And I'm a Palooka. Antonio Tarver's Mason 'The Line' Dixon was based on the fighting career of the early Mike Tyson, who wasn't loved but was respected. Stallone, of necessity, turns this upside down in Balboa.
Biological -
Surreal
2.5
Long one of the ultimate takes-a-licking and keeps-on-ticking movie heroes, Rocky Balboa proves yet again he's the toughest tomato can in filmdom.
Physical -
Glib
1.5
Physics ain't the problem.
