Not just about fights anymore.
IMDB Plot:
Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement to step into the ring for the last time and face the heavyweight champ Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon.
When you think about the “Rocky” movies, what comes to your mind? Probably the fight scenes. And I think that’s the good point about the latest movie: it isn’t about fight and fight takes just a few minutes in the end. Character building is really done now and it touches some subjects that may fit some. To me, they all fit.
First, you have the “leave the past behind” problem. Rocky is somewhat living the past, thinking about things that should have been buried long ago.
Second, you have the “being what you are” problem. All the time, Rocky is pressed to be something he is not. He has to stop doing what he felt inside because what other people would think and what the general society would expect from him. In the movie, he is old and no one expects him to fight anymore, but that’s something he has to do.
Third, you have the “shadow of our fathers” problem. Not really a Rocky problem now, but his son, that has to live under his father name shadow.
Finally, the Rocky movies came to an age and that’s probably the best movie of the series.