Creed II 2018

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• CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20256/10

  This is the son of the grudge match, and it pitches the now reigning champion “Adonis” (Michael B. Jordan) against “Viktor” (Florian Munteau). Now this latter guy is the son of the “Drago” (Dolph Lundgren) and “Mrs. Drago” (Brigitte Nielsen) who got thumped by “Rocky” (Sylvester Stallone) way back in 1985, remember? Well now the son wants a crack at the the champ, only this time coach “Rocky” thinks it’s a mistake to take the fight and leaves his charge to go it alone. Messy eh? Well of course it needs a rematch, but will coach come back to help “Adonis” keep his crown? The fight sequences are pretty good here, but the rest of it is really quite mediocre. Jordan is easy on the eye and has clearly done the work to come across as a plausible fighter, but the acting across the board is all about as wooden as the never versatile Lundgren and some of the dialogue is terrible. There’s a dose of familial dysfunction, a tiny bit of romance sure, but the thing is decidedly episodic with hardly any jeopardy. It also really misses the definitive Conti score and Sly just doesn’t feature enough to impose himself on this underwhelming faux-biopic. In many ways, it is as if it were being made at

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• Nathanon TMDB · Mar 20239/10

  Creed II takes pieces of the previous Rocky stories and is able to completely transform them into a better, more emotional story that can easily resonate with audiences. If I have one big complaint about this installment, it would be that the script steals almost every single story beat from Rocky IV. But, at the same time, that is one of the most interesting aspects. Rocky IV had so much potential to be an emotionally impactful movie but failed to capture that tone due to the 80s camp that was heavily featured. In Creed II, we get to see the fallout of the fight between Rocky and Drago. Where Rocky went on to be a national treasure in retirement, Drago met a worse fate in Russia. His wife left him, his country turned its back on him, and he and his son were completely alone. This isolation drives the two in order to regain the respect of their countrymen and is a very compelling motive. On the other hand, Adonis is attempting to gain redemption for the Creeds by beating the fighters that single handedly killed his father all those years ago. This story is able to evolve all of our main characters, with Donnie being able to accept his father's absence and become a father figure for

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• GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10

  I finally got around to this, and I think my issue with it is Adonis Creed. I kind of passed it over in the first one, because, honestly, it was just nice to see another Rocky movie, and you did see Creed train and fight and struggle a bit. What we have is a kid that grew up an orphan, but at a young age got adopted into a life of privilege, had a good job, and didn't have to struggle financially, until he kind of did when he wanted to become a full time boxer... and then the story takes off. And that was all passable, because he didn't exactly win did he? It was a hard fought first movie and he still had to go through a pretty tough arch to get to where he was that was both interesting and compelling... so despite the relative flaws in Creed, it was an enjoyable enough film to watch and far better than most of the movies we've been getting lately. By the time Creed II rolls around, however, Adonis Creed is just whiny. And that's really it, his character isn't really allowed to progress any further, he's not allowed to grow in any way. The poster suggests that there was a hard fought and emotional battle that Adonis had to over come and made it through a better man that when he sta

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