CREED Movie Review – A More Than Worthy Successor To ROCKY

Pictures’ and New Line Cinema’s drama “Creed”, a Warner Bros.

He said the aging Rocky’s obvious physical struggles reminded him of his father, who has a neurological disease that makes movement hard. Troubled as a boy, he frequently gets into fights. The original Rocky was the underdog from a working-class background who gets his first shot at the big time.

Donny’s mother dies when he’s young and he’s identified as a bright child prone to violent outbursts. Yes, we like him, but the only reason any of us are drawn to this is Stallone and Rocky.

The film then jumps to an adult Adonis fighting in Tijuana in the same type of dives that Rocky used to fight in back in Philadelphia. The hero of the spin-off movies is a driven young kid who had an upper middle-class background but deliberately chooses boxing as a vocation because he wants to be live up to his father’s legacy.

And while Jordan tells the mag he allowed himself the occasional indulgence and “did cheat days right”, his intense discipline and “supercompetitive” nature helped him stay the course when it came to his grueling workouts. Adonis wants to train with the best.

“I Guess What I’m Trying to Say, Is That if I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!”. “All these guys are hungry”.

Adonis finds Rocky still operating his restaurant, Adriane’s and all alone. But now the senior citizen Rocky is perfectly suited to the role of mentor for Creed’s son Adonis.

There’s something about these films that resonates with audiences. That film starring Paul Newman brought Fast Eddie Felson back to the screen and in 1986 won Newman his only Academy Award.

He ceded that role to his co-writer Ryan Coogler, who impressed Stallone with his understanding of the Rocky character from growing up with the films.

The performances and the direction are all very solid. It’s somber and observant, more about the day-to-day of a shy Philadelphia hood with a crush on the girl at the pet store than about boxing for the first hour of its 119 minutes.

The scenes about the film’s main relationships – the one between Johnson and the coach he calls “Unc”, and the sweetly romantic one between Johnson and Bianca (a vibrant Tessa Thompson), the musician from downstairs – aren’t there to be filler between rounds. Michael B. Jordon, who starred in that film as well, does a big transformation to justify going up against the tough bodies of some real fighters. You can’t ask a “Rocky” film to do more than that.

‘Just from the trailer, it seems to be the best work he’s ever done. That lack of objective and need really detracts from the film as a whole. It’s the most realistic Rocky movie since the first one in 1976 and worthy of that film’s heart.

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We don’t know that with Donny. They cuttin’ to Apollo’s wife, they cutting to Adrian.

Expressive, memorable and engaging, The music director delivers a sound performance that more than makes up for his last movie.