‘Sly’ review: Just a man and his will to survive. Sylvester Stallone gets the Netflix doc treatment

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Less a documentary than a Sylvester Stallone career retrospective, the Netflix film 'Sly' is an exercise in celebrity image management.

Famous for his sad-eyed brawn, Sylvester Stallone doesn’t get much credit for his intelligence or perceptive instincts. A storyteller to his core, he understood from the start that his biggest roles, Rocky and Rambo, were more than just men built to fight, and he helped to redefine what an action movie could be along the way. But once you attain your dream, he says in the Netflix film “Sly,” it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

And I go, OK, that’s true, I am. But I’m also nice. I’m kind of a soft touch. If you could put that together, that would really be a great character.” Which led him to write the script for “Rocky.” Instead of allowing Stallone to talk at length about each successive sequel, it would have been interesting to hear about how choices were made in the original that became iconic signposts, from the music to that run up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

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