Rocky (1976)
John Avildsen’s 1976 boxing underdog launcher. Stallone wrote and starred. Won Best Picture. Began the franchise that defined boxing cinema.
Sylvester Stallone
This archive gathers the films featuring Sylvester Stallone reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Cobra (1986)”, “Demolition Man (1993)”, “Rage (2014)”, and “Rocky (1976)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Sylvester Stallone serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Rage (2014)
Paco Cabezas’s 2014 Stallone vehicle. Original title Tombstone. Competent later-career Stallone work that does not exceed established conventions.
Cobra (1986)
George P. Cosmatos’s 1986 Stallone action thriller. Compressed 87-minute runtime, iconographic Cobretti character. Mid-1980s American action.
Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature…