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Some classic examples would be that in Rocky II we are told that Balboa has lasting eye damage and could potentially go blind if he were to continue fighting, yet in Rocky III we are shown his next ten title defences, plus a fight with a gigantic wrestler, followed by the two Clubber Lang fights and nobody seems too worried about his sight! Rocky IV supposedly takes place two years later and yet his son appears to have doubled in age since Balboa won the title back.

There has always been a slight lack of continuity between the films that many of the franchise’s fans are happy to dismiss just to allow themselves the benefit of a new Rocky film. With a budget of around $48 million, of which around $15 million was Stallone’s fee, this was a far cry from the outside bet that came good for the original film.

The dawn of the new millennium had seen the likes of Get Carter, Driven and Avenging Angelo very much falling short of his previous work and sadly the last film that he had starred in prior to Balboa’s comeback had been Robert Rodriguez’s on-going, kid-friendly franchise in the form of 2003’s Spy Kids, where he’d appeared as the villainous Toymaster. Whilst it’s good to experiment with different genres during an acting career, it appears he’d taken the role as other, more appealing offers weren’t exactly flooding in. It wasn’t as if this was even a safe gamble for MGM who had taken on the film after United Artists had passed on their rights to stay in the Rocky business. He’d also won critical acclaim for his contribution to 1996’s Copland, easily one of his best performances, but unfortunately after that, successful roles had started to elude him. Stallone had proved after Rocky V that he still had a little left in the basement with his 1993 one-two combination of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man.

Whilst the fifth (and that time, final) instalment had made money, there was a sizable difference at the box office to that of its predecessors and most importantly, it had left a large portion of its audience dissatisfied with the damp squib that the finished product turned out to be.īy the time of the sixth film’s release, it had been 16 years since we’d seen Rocky Balboa put on a pair of boxing gloves and with its star now clocking in at 60 years old, it would be a tough sell to convince anyone aside from the hardcore fans of the franchise, that there was still any fight left in the character to make this a film worth watching. Until 1990’s Rocky V, Rocky Balboa had always been the one guy that Sylvester Stallone could rely on to bring him box office success.

Full script of rocky balboa speech to son