Good riddance Paulie!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2019)

Good movie, and good choice of direction for the Rocky series! Even though it is "Creed", it did a really good job picking up after the last "Rocky" movie and keeping the continuity, flow, and history! I gotta admit, about the 1 1/2 hour mark, I could feel the ol' Rocky magic pumping me up! And at about the two hour mark I was misting up! I didn't really like the love story aspect, or her music, but the rest of the film hit (pun intended!) all the right notes for me! Stallone is pretty good as "unc" Rocky, and Phylicia Rashad really owned the screen for the brief moments she was on it! The part where she says that she was the one to wipe Apollo's ass when he couldn't was pretty real, and strong!
And, I know this will come off jerky, but I was so glad not to see Paulie! I really hated that character! So long ya' jerk!