| | | Never Give Up. And Never Stop Believing.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & 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!
"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 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Rocky Balboa - DVD By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/9/2007 6:32 PM | |
When last we saw Rocky Balboa, our prized overachieving contender (played to monosyllabic perfection by Sylvester Stallone) had prevailed in a street fight against his protégé, Tommy "Machine" Gunn (Tommy Morrison). The Italian Stallion may have triumphed that day, but the feel-good franchise long since had thrown in the towel. Rocky V did more damage to the character's legacy than Ivan Drago, Clubber Lang, and Apollo Creed combined. It issued a crushing TKO to a collection of films that celebrated victory in the face of impossible odds, and it left a horrible taste in fans' mouths. By all accounts, the final bell had rung on Rocky....read the full review |
| Rocky Balboa - DVD By: Daniel Solomon - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 3/25/2007 1:42 AM | | Like delicious deer meat kept safely in the freezer, a good film franchise will still tend to go rancid after about four years. By the third summer release, you'll begin to hate all the characters, the replacement director who has a "new vision," the plotline that inevitably kills off a major character from the first two movies. Even the original film, which once seemed so original and ingenious, is cast under suspicion because of its relation to this end-of-the-trilogy crap festival. ...read the full review |
| 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: 8/26/2008 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 16190 | | UPC: 00043396161900 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic 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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5 of 5 Rocky Balboa; Inspiring entertaining, and recommen Tuesday, December 25, 2007
A Viewer from Wethersfield, CT
This movie builds on the previous movies, and adds some additional success pincipals in a story line that is familiar, but is presented freshly with some surprises.
I never viewed the Rocky movies as great cinematic works, but as some of the best inspiration/motivational movies because of the life success principals they teach and model.
This movie summarizes the ideas for living a prosperous life and adds some additional ones. However, I don't think it's a replacement for the previous movies, more like a reminder of what you aleady know.
I really enjoyed this, knowing how it would turn out in the end, and that is a really good recommendation. I knew what was going to happen, and still got wrapped up in the story anyway. I've watched it 3 times now, and I still like it. Was this review helpful?  
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