| Rocky Balboa (2006)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Sylvester Stallone |
Rocky Balboa
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| Burt Young |
Paulie
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| Milo Ventimiglia |
Rocky Balboa Jr.
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| Geraldine Hughes |
Marie
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| Antonio Tarver |
Mason Dixon
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| James Francis Kelly III |
Steps
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| Tony Burton |
Duke
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| Henry G. Sanders |
Martin
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| A.J. Benza |
L.C.
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| Talia Shire |
Adrian
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| Lou DiBella |
Himself
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| Plot |
Rocky now lives alone, as his wife Adrian passed away several years ago. His son despises him, and he owns a restaurant, Adrian's, in Philadelphia. Rocky starts thinking about fighting locally, but after a computer simulation shows Rocky beating the current champ, Mason Dixon, Dixon's people challenge Rocky to a fight. After some soul-searching, Rocky agrees, and starts training, since his speed and quickness are gone, Rocky can only win by developing brute strength. He does that, and fights Dixon to the bitter end, with his son in his corner after the two reconcile.
The sixth installment of the Rocky series picks up the story of the Italian Stallion 16 years after the morose Rocky V. And sure, at his advanced age, Sylvester Stallone now looks like one of those sides of beef his character used to pound on. No matter. Somehow you buy the premise after all these years, even if it takes forever for Rocky Balboa to stop wallowing in self-pity (Adrian is dead, his old haunts are demolished) and get down to the business of drinking raw eggs and running up staircases. The business at hand is an unlikely exhibition fight with champion Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver), which the near-sexagenarian Mr. Balboa has no business accepting. Of course, just as sure as the horns of Bill Conti's theme music are even now trumpeting through your head, the ol' Rock might have a punch or two left in him. Stallone wrote and directed, and there isn't much to say except that the movie steps in its pre-determined paces with a canny sense of what has come before (it's practically an homage to all the previous Rocky pictures, complete with fleeting flashbacks). Burt Young is around again, and Geraldine Hughes makes an appealing, rather chaste female companion for Rocky. Stallone's Rocky has gotten suspiciously articulate over the years, but he still knows how to slouch. If Stallone never forgets that, he can probably keep the franchise rolling. --Robert Horton |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Drama |
| Director |
Sylvester Stallone |
| Producer |
William Chartoff; Kevin King; Robert Chartoff; Charles Winkler; David Winkler |
| Writer |
Sylvester Stallone |
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| Studio |
MGM/UA |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
102 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
2006 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
426 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/20/2007 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396161900 |
| Release Date |
3/20/2007 |
| Subtitles |
English; French |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Deleted Scenes & Alternate Ending
Boxing's Bloopers
Skill Vs. Will: The Making of Rocky Balboa
Reality in the Ring: Filming Rocky's Final Fight
Virtual Champion: Creating the Computer Fight
Audio Commentary with Sylvester Stallone |
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