Don't know where to start...

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2019)

As a big Rocky fan this movie is just a travesty. The fact this gets a 7.6 rating on IMDB while Rocky II gets a 7.2 just makes me want to dig my own grave. I guess I can't blame Hollywood for cashing in on lazy uninspired garbage like this if the masses are this easily pleased. This movie neither captures the enduring heart and motivation of the first 3, the guilty pleasure elements of IV and V, or the fan service rehash of Rocky Balboa. It has no appeal once so ever.
Creed's son is completely un-likeable and has zero charisma at all on screen. I would expect the son of Apollo Creed to have a lot more fire in his persona. They don't properly stage his transformation at all, in fact it couldn't have been done any worse. So the movie starts, he walks into the local tough guy gym and beats the 6th best boxer in his weight class with one punch? As an audience member I got so much satisfaction having him start at that high level! He quits his cozy office job and we aren't given any reason why except "gotta be like my dad." They don't show him struggling in the corporate world or anything.
They don't establish the villain at all. In every Rocky movie you gotta hate the villain, so much so that when Rocky starts training you feel like you're the one training cause you want to beat them so bad! In Creed I couldn't care less, they start the training before the opposing fighters have any sort of trash talking or confrontation. That's like Rocky movie 101. There's a forced romance between Creed and a poor man's Rhianna which is just cringe worthy and takes up about half the screen time.