Rating and reviewing the Rocky films alongside each other
TO millions, Rocky means Balboa rather than
Marciano or Graziano. More than that, it means a fighting spirit, a belief that
if you never give up, you will get your rewards.
Had Sylvester Stallone made his decision to
retire Rocky after the success of the first film way back in 1976, we would
have been spared the fight that ended the Cold War and his comeback when he was
in his fifties, but also deprived of the ending to
Rocky II.
They created lots of interest in the heavyweight
division – albeit not the real heavyweight division – at a time when ‘The Lost