ROCKY V (1990)

THEY get worse… This is the one with the late Tommy Morrison which is a loose rewrite of the Mike Tyson story.

Paulie’s decision to employ a dodgy accountant leaves Balboa bankrupt and heading back to his old neighbourhood. Comically, he digs out the clobber he wore in the first film and ignores his son’s pleas for attention to fill Morrison’s character Tommy Gunn with plenty of boxing clichés as he sets about building a champion.

Gunn is lured away from Balboa by a manipulative promoter who bares more than a passing resemblance to Don King and Balboa and Gunn end up sorting out their differences in a silly street fight at the end.

Even now, some 28 years later, Rocky V is still absolutely dreadful.