Rocco is a bare boned (sorry!) doc on porn superstar Rocco Siffredi who has reached the end of his career. Ultimately an uneven tale is told focusing on the last shoots he orchestrates w/his cameraman cousin who deserves a doc of his own. Herein lies the problem w/this story, how did Rocco get into this business? He mentions his obsession w/women & his mother's disappointment but how did this Neopolitan neophyte find his calling? A more rounded examination from Nick Broomfield or Errol Morris might've succeeded but as it stands, all the sex & foreplay is merely titillating w/nothing substantive gained in the end (sorry again!).

Hey, this film is just an attempt to justify that a lucky guy who works having sex with the most beautiful girls in the world is suffering and deals with his own personal demons. He turned out to be a prude/conservative! He hid the fact that his wife is Rosa Caracciolo (the filmmakers even changed her name to Rosza, her Hungarian real name), a porn actress who only shot sex scenes with him, while he banged the whole cast of females of the porn flick.We don't see how he starts doing porn. We just find him wishing to shoot his last scene with Kelly, I guess his first co-star, who was a great British performer and decides to come out of retirement to shoot yet more hardcore with him.Actually the best and most entertaining scenes are the discussions Rocco has with his cousin/camera man Gabriel, a guy who wishes to be in Rocco's shoes but, according to him, doesn't have the guts to be in front of the camera.Rocco seems to be a sex addict who suffers from guilt related to the death of his mother and his brother Claudio. If that's the case, he should have looked for professional help and not being part of this pseudo-freudian study.Gosh, the girls are so beautiful and sexy... he's so lucky, it's hard to understand he's going through hell.

I want to believe that people, who venture out creatively and do the things that they do to make something, are complex and interesting. This expo leaves only my imagination to fill in the blanks of many questions I have regarding the life and times of Rocco Siffredi. I am left to wonder that all Rocco has to say, after 90 minutes, is that there is a sexual void in his life, and nothing can fill it? Rocco is tortured emotionally by the death of his brother at a young age and his Mother much later in life. His Mom, in the interim, has shaped whom we know as Rocco the porn star today. The films ambiguity makes it confusing to watch, however, as a surveyor of pornographic material, it compels this viewer to wonder, is there anything more I need to ask about Rocco? On the surface I find a man too manly to admit that he may need some type of treatment to deal with what may be a disorder of his mind. He subjects the viewer to his tormented state, and surrounds himself with enablers who validate his "God" only gift, Rocco's sexuality. It is literally a "Passion Play". On the bright side I did find the filming of it beautiful, equivalent too watching a porn without the close ups of naughty bits plugged into each other. I do empathize with reviewers' observations about the mistreatment of women in the porn industry, and for that the film supplies us with porn actress, Kelly Stafford, to dispel that notion and ground the viewer with a feminist point of view. In closing I ask myself is Rocco as interesting as I would like to think someone in his situation would be? The answer is a resounding no, and this disappoints me. Maybe on the surface most people who do pornography are merely normal with heightened sexual prowess and that is all. It's not a disparaging thing to say and maybe had Rocco been a pioneer of pornography; this look into his life could have worked. Again I am not slamming the documentary, I'm left with stones unturned. Instead of honesty from Rocco, I only have his disturbed void and the fact that he may never fill whatever it is.

This movie apparently was done by Rocco financially. Since there is nothing about Rocco's real life and tried to idealize a porn star. First of all, we could not learn how his career started. the movie never informs us, that Rocco's wife used to be a porn actress herself.Instead, she draws a conservative wife. Why Siffredi shoots abroad and decided to be based in Budapest? At least that 2 points could be explained by Rocco. Shortly do not waste your time, choose another documentary if you should watch.