Rocky II - 7.0

Rocky II was slow at the beginning during Rocky's 'retirement' period and especially suffered during this section of the movie due to a complete lack of chemistry between Rocky and Adrian. I suppose it's partly intentional but in every scene Rocky and Adrian seemed like they had just randomly met each other a few minutes before. I will say that the story with Adrian and her coma and her telling Rocky she just wanted him to win when she woke up did set up Rocky's motivation during the training montage and fight scene very well. And this last 45 minutes to hour was awesome. Great montage, though all the kids running along with Rocky was pretty goofy, and the fight scene was one of the more exciting and suspenseful sports movie scenes I can remember, right up there with the fight in the original Rocky. So basically this movie didn't work at all as a drama but once it got into gear as a sports movie, it was extremely entertaining.