BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

yeral yeral (ismetyeral) Let's not forget a very good Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan film and the Sylvester Stallone on the table. We once again saw him as Rocky Balboa

rigo222 Slept through it all. It's full of dialogues. Just talk talk talk... nothing original or unpredictable. Long and boring.

Michael Ledo May contain plot spoilers if you haven't figured out the entire plot from the title and poster.Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) is the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed who died while mom was pregnant. He has climbed the corporate ladder but feels incomplete because he is not a boxer. Not being able to secure a trainer in LA, he travels to Philadelphia where a reluctant Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) trains him and he also gets a love interest (Tessa Thompson). At this point the plot becomes more inane as it simply repeats the first film with different characters, if fact I was expecting to hear, "Cut me Mick" it was so grossly similar. Oh wait. It was Light Heavyweight, so I guess it was different.I can't imagine this film catching on to a sequel, but then again I never imagined Hellraiser going into outer space either. I was disappointed primarily in the trite formula script. They even reused the sound track which was the best aspect of the film. I left the theater feeling, been there, done that, got the t-shirt several times over.Now having said that, the acting was great. The plot was fan fiction quality. 3 1/2 starsGuide: 1 quick F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Anssi Vartiainen Sylvester Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa in this seventh installment of the Rocky franchise. Taking place sometime after the events of Rocky Balboa, the movie focuses on the character of Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Rocky's original ultimate foe. Adonis is trying to become a boxer just like his father and recruits Rocky as a trainer in the ultimate bid for championship.Creed is an excellent example on how being formulaic is not necessarily a bad thing. The story in this film is textbook perfect sports film story. It's quintessentially Rocky in a way that's so blatant as to be utterly charming. And it works. The director, the screenwriter, the actors, they all believe in this story, in this franchise, and it shows in their work. Rocky has always been all about heart and it warms me to see a film such as this being made in modern times. It tells me that people still believe in the right things.I also like that they didn't try to reboot the series with Adonis. He is not meant to replace Rocky. Including this one, there have been seven Rocky movies so far, and they have built their own mythos, their own unique character cast. The story of Adonis builds on top of Rocky and Apollo, but it remains its own things.What can I say, it's a great movie and worthy of the name of Rocky.