4/5 Creed II: Powerful Boxing Movie

*Spoilers and Favorites after the ads

Summary:

I’ve never seen any of the Rocky movies, and I’m not a fan of the professional sports movies anyway. Still, despite being completely 100% predictable, Creed II delivers on entertainment. Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) is the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, but he gets challenged to a fight by Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago (guy who killed his father, Apollo). Whew, that’s a lot of connections when it’s spelled out.

 

Additional Comments:

• If you’ve seen a trailer, you’ve seen 80% of the movie.
• Viktor Drago has a few surprising moments. More later.
• Fight scenes were well choreographed and suitably dramatic.
• This has one of the weirdest soundtracks I’ve ever heard. You could get classical music two seconds after a rap song. Pretty sure training montages happened on quite a few occasions.
• Characters: Bianca and Creed’s mother show up at key times. Ivan is suitably grim-faced and determined throughout the whole process. Rocky’s very much a side character, but they worked him into a few things.
• I seriously wanted to punch the promoter. He was annoying and oily and slimy the first second on screen, and he the same his last second on the screen.

Conclusion:

Whether you like these kind of sports movies or not, it’s worth watching at least once.

 

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Spoiler Section:

• One kind of knew there would be two fights in here based on the fact that the first one came so early in the movie.
• One of the funny lines came when Rocky was suggesting they name the baby girl Becky or Cate. Creed responds with: “You do know she’s gonna be black, right?”
• After Creed has an emotional moment, he picks up his baby girl and comforts her because she’s fussing. He says, “Daddy’s being a b—-.”)
• Drago discussion continued. Clearly, this dude’s got mommy issues, but who wouldn’t if your mom left the family because your dad lost a fight? The end scene where his father’s running along side him, instead of chasing with the car is actually kind of touching.
• Motive and motivation: It’s not clear in the beginning or end what Creed’s actually fighting for.
• Some of the most surprising character development happened within Ivan Drago.