Reviews Written by Ronald A

Something new

Pros: Typical italian attitude

Cons: plot is quite simple but interesting to watch

although this movie was almost named after the great Rocky Marciano, during his time in his career was the only white boxer and undefeated, the movie Rocky portrayed a smalltime happy go lucky boxer played by Stallone, very natural acting by him, got a shot at the most prestigeous boxing title, was only chosen by the Champion himself, just to make Rocky looks stupid in the ring as part of the spectacle set by the champion as part of the celebration.
any way, one thing that got me is all the cast except Burgess Meredith are all new or unknown, they are all great, all natural.

the boxing scenes are perfectly done, this is actually the most realistic boxing movie since Raging Bull by De Niro and I think the Academy has made the right choice to vote this one as the 1976 Best Picture. ...