Rocky 2 (1979)
After the mighty success of the first film Stallone returns to write, direct and star in this sequel that picks up directly after where the first film ended. Struggling to come to terms with his responsibilities as a husband and father will Rocky return to the ring?
Despite a 2 hour run time this film could really have done with some more plot, it feels like nearly the entire first ¾ of the film is made up of Rocky “rejecting the call” before he has a training montage then fights. It is nice to see the progression of Rocky as a character but the structure of the film is pretty terrible. Obviously after the first film made buckets of money they wanted a sequel but I think more time should have been spent hammering out a coherent script rather than what we get here. In fact if you take out the boxing elements this might have been a better film because they do seem really alien and tacked on the end just to appease expectations.
2/5
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