An average movie

Since I have seen all the 'Rocky' movies, even the recent 'Creed' installments, I was quite eager to see this movie focusing on Chuck Wepner, the guy who was actually the inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Well, eventually, to be honest, it turned out to be a decent watch but not much more than that, I'm afraid. First of all, there was eventually even less boxing than in the actual 'Rocky' movie. To make things worse, in my opinion, his fight with Mohammed Ali felt rather anticlimatic. Basically, the guy didn't do much during this fight, excepting getting beat the sh*t out by Ali and surviving this ordeal for 15 rounds. Another mistake they made was to put too much focus on his relationship with his wife Phyliss played by the alway amazing Elisabeth Moss. In fact, his relationship with Linda turned out to be even more poorly developed. I guess, the bottom line is, was Chuck Wepner such a fascinating character after all? After watching this movie, I have some doubts and it seems that Sylvester Stallone had already managed to make the most out of this story. In fact, one point of this movie was to show that, even though Wepner became slightly famous thanks to 'Rocky', at the time, he didn't get a dime for it. However, you shouldn't forget that, back then, Stallone was himself a struggling actor with barely any money at all so he shouldn't be blamed. At least, the whole thing was well made, Liev Schreiber did deliver another solid performance and the guy was always convincing. Anyway, to conclude, even if it didn't really blow me away, it was still fairly entertaining and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

6/10