And perhaps most impressive is that Stallone
fused reality with
fiction to create a miraculous comeback that only seems to happen in the realm of movies — resurrecting Rocky Balboa thirty years after our first introduction to him, followed by a return of John Rambo twenty years after last seen on film.
It feels like a fascinating
and untrustworthy (but not malicious)
fusing of
fiction and reality in the way a film like, say, Forest Gump does with its mashing of Tom Hanks into historical television footage.