Creed

Creed

Rating 8.5 out of 10

I had reservations about his movie in the beginning.  Looked like it could be good or could be a hammed up extension of the mostly very good Rocky saga.  After a few people I know saw this movie and liked it I decided to go.  A rainy day in Kennesaw means unpaid vacation days for roofers.  So I scooped up my friend Mark and we were off to the local NCG for an early movie.

In Creed we have Adonis Johnson.  Turns out Apollo Creed while being a great boxer was not always a great husband.  He got a woman pregnant just before he decided to fight this big blonde Russian guy that did not end well.  Adonis is born after Apollo dies and never meets his father.  When his mother dies he spends several years in orphanages fighting all the time until Apollo's wife takes him in.  He gets a proper education and has a fancy finance job.  Yet fighting is still in his blood.  He flies off to Mexico to do backstreet fights.  He quits his job and decides to become a boxer like his dad.

When he goes to Philadelphia looking to Rocky for help he finds reluctance.  Of course it would be a short movie if Rocky held to his guns and refused to train Adonis.  Through a couple amazingly lucky breaks Adonis lands a huge fight just as Rocky did so many years ago.

With this movie the fight is not really a big part of the movie.  It's the relationships Adonis builds and cultivates as he goes along.  While it's agreed Sylvester Stallone has not been in many runs for an Oscar award I feel this may be his best job of acting ever.  Michael B. Jordan does a good job as Adonis.  Acting overall is very good.

I was highly entertained and will probably pay to see this one again.  Good movie folks.