| | | Never Give Up. And Never Stop Believing.
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver) retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son (Milo Ventimiglia, TV's Heroes) and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. With the odds stacked firmly against him, Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history, a hard-hitting, action-packed battle of the ages! What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"The acting in the film is grade-A...some rousing inspirational monologues..." Mark Bell, Film Threat
"...a low-key, technically stripped-down production that really does come close to capturing the heart and soul of the original." Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
"...an irresistible statement that "Yo, life ain't over till it's over."" William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 22, 2006Fifteen years after the last ROCKY movie, Sylvester Stallone returns as the iconic working-class boxer, who is now retired and running a restaurant until a new heavyweight champion propels him back into the ring.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | DVD Quality Picture | | Full Length Movie | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Rocky Balboa - DVD Review By: Matt Paprocki - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 7/25/2007 7:25 AM | | Rocky Balboa is a movie that needed to be made. Contrary to early naysayers, this franchise needed more closure than it got back in 1990 when audiences last visited with a cinematic icon. Sylvester Stallone directs, acts, and writes this final sequel and the result is a moving, nostalgic, and engrossing effort worthy of the Rocky name....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 16193 | | UPC: 00043396161931 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"It turns out that the added years only benefit the character, making him seem touchingly new....[With a] very niftily staged climactic bout..." -- Grade: B 12/22/2006 p.57Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s Stallone's gentle gift for funny, engaging, naturalistic dialogue starts to take hold, the movie fills up with tiny, poignant moments....As a comeback, it could be the greatest triumph of Sly's career." 02/01/2007 p.32 Sight and Sound
"[I]t's hard not to be stirred once fight night arrives....Stallone, like his alter ego, avoids overstaying his welcome against the odds." 03/01/2007 p.73 USA Today
"[T]his fifth sequel is perfect in scale and minus pretension, qualities that extend to Sylvester Stallone's performance as well." 03/23/2007 p.3E Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "ROCKY BALBOA is a genuine highpoint on which to hang up the gloves." 05/01/2007 p.91 ReelViews 8 of 10
Looking back at the Sylvester Stallone pugilist franchise from the end of the line, one thing becomes clear: there were really only two Rocky movies. Everything else was filler, founded on formula and driven by testosterone and adrenaline. The two real films - those that used boxing as a metaphor rather than a means to an end and that focused on human drama - were the 1977 Oscar winner that started things off and, perhaps surprisingly, Rocky Balboa, the seeming afterthought that brings the saga to a fitting conclusion. These two features are solid bookends around a mess of a series that started going wrong when Rocky beat Apollo Creed in a re-match and got worse from there. - James Berardinelli
L.A. Weekly 8 of 10
In 1976, a struggling 30-year-old actor named Sylvester Stallone wrote a script about an underdog boxer getting an unlikely title shot, insisted on starring in it himself and ended up with an Oscar-winning hit on his hands. In 2006, a has-been 60-year-old superstar, also named Sylvester Stallone, has dusted off the old text, changed a few names and places and restaged it as though it were King Lear. And here's the thing: It works beautifully...That final bout, shot by Stallone with high-definition video cameras in the style of televised sports, will prove unreasonably exciting to those who, like this critic, came of age watching Rocky KO Apollo Creed, Mr. T and some Russian commie played by Dolph Lundgren. But what gives Rocky Balboa its unexpected pathos is the titanic humility of Stallone's performance, the earnestness with which he plays a man knocked down (but not out) by the ravages of time. - Scott Foundas
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