Rocky V (1990)
Directed by John G. Avildsen
A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.
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Yet, here we are with Creed, Ryan Coogler’s unexpected and finely wrought extension of the franchise that seemed dead with the underwhelming Rocky V in 1990 before Sylvester Stallone resurrected it in 2006 with Rocky Balboa.
The character deserved the poetic finale after the clunker that was “Rocky V.” Ryan Coogler’s “Creed” is an utter accomplishment that works as a part of Rocky Balboa’s tale, and as the beginning of a new underdog saga.
When it was announced about a decade ago that Sylvester Stallone was going to reprise his star-making role of Rocky Balboa for the first time since the disastrous "Rocky V" sixteen years earlier, few observers saw it as anything other than a desperate attempt to revive a career that had been floundering in recent years.
And with the exception of the unfortunate “Rocky V” (Tommy Gunn is the Mister Freeze of “Rocky” villains), we had a fantastic run with one of the most memorable movie characters of our time.
This made up for the lunacy of him essentially getting into an illegal street fight with Tommy Gunn the last time we saw him (the abysmal Rocky V) and gave us a more sophisticated, “officiated” violence to close out the Balboa saga.
Nor does "Undisputed" stack up favorably against the original "Rocky" or even the worst of its less-than-impressive sequels even 1990's horrid "Rocky V," for that matter.