Rocky Balboa. This is the 6th Rocky movie. We find our hero living a humbled, but fulfilled life, Sure he is sad that Adrian has passed away, he has a strained relationship with his son who is living in his shadow and his brother in law is still an emotional parasite. But he has a restaurant, he gets approved to fight again despite vague bureaucracy and he even forms a new but platonic romantic attachment that comes with a readymade family. This movie had some good Rocky elements. It had rambling Stallone. It had speeches Stallone. It had grand standing Stallone and it even had feats of strength Stallone. The problem however was the writing. It didn't have the fearlessness to follow through on some of the more interesting plot points and is ultimately a disappointing sequel despite being heralded as an impressive comeback. The problem with the movie is that it could handle the stakes. They were just too high to be realistic and thus non of the plot points feel like they matter. It's difficult to make Rock the underdog at this point despite continuously trying. The 5th film did a much better job at telling the story the 6th movie wanted to tell. This may be an unpopular opinion as this movie does have a cult following, but we are not afraid to defend this unpopular opinion and you must listen to the episode to hear why!

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