Rocky, updated to the 21st century.

Rating: 9/10 (27 August 2016)

I wasn't expecting this to even be good, never mind as good as it is. Rocky is one of my favourite films, and this is pretty much what Rocky would have been if it had been made today, but probably better than what Rocky made today would have been if I am honest.
It is not quite as good as the original, nothing ever will be, but damn. Jordan can act, Stallone is getting as close to acting as he can. You can sympathise with the characters and their motives. The film is just about long enough. The fight is as great as silly but watchable as any of the rocky fights. The fighters look more authentic than they did in the originals (which is because some of them really are boxers). Its just great.
I am glad I finally watched this.
The only problem really is that there are some things which in this age of social justice you cant really tell if it is just random, or if it is trying to be "meaningful". For example Creed's walk to the ring for the main fight of the film sees him basically walking through a sea of 100k jeering white people, the only non whites in the arena seeming to be Creed's friends and ring crew.
But it is entirely possible that this is simply reading into something that isn't there. And there may well have been "social justice" type subthemes in the original films that I just don't get because of the age and geographical differences.