Creed is a very satisfying boxing movie staring Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) as the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, Rocky's (Sylvester Stallone) longtime nemesis and friend.
Young Adonis has boxing in his blood but he tries to hide his true identity as the heir to the former heavyweight champ by fighting under his mother's name, Johnson. That plans goes out the window when he enlists the help of Rocky as his trainer and soon the boxing world discovers that the former champ had a son, out of wedlock, while he was being portrayed as a loyal family man with his wife Mary Ann (Phylicia Rashad).
Creed has a little bit of something for everyone. It, of course, has boxing at the center of the story and with real media partners ESPN and HBO it comes off as a very credible boxing story. But the movie also has family drama, romance and a little bit of humor to go along with the boxing story.
Thankfully Rocky has retired from boxing in this latest installment of the Rocky Balboa franchise. (The 2006 movie Rocky Balboa was a real stretch with Stallone playing a sixty something year old fighter.) In "Creed" Rocky, who's affectionately known as "Unc", is purely along to train the young Adonis Creed in lessons he's learned both in boxing and in life.
The movie has a few plot twists that make for an enjoyable movie watching experience, but at the heart of the film is the music driven fight scenes that will have you on the edge of your seat cheering. Creed has a run time of 132 minutes and it's rated PG-13. On my "Hollywood Popcorn Scale" I rate it a JUMBO.
Hollywood Hernandez
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