Simply Terrific

Rating: 9/10 (13 March 2016)

Adonis "Donnie" Johnson (Jordan) the son of the late Apollo Creed, a former Heavyweight Champion of the World, asks Rocky Balboa (Stallone) to train him. Rocky reluctantly agrees. Later Adonis changes his name to Creed to fight Pretty Rickey Conlan (Tony Bellew) the British Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. Let the games begin.
The Academy got it wrong. Sylvester Stallone should have been nominated for the Best Actor Award, not a Supporting Actor Award. He may not have beaten out Leo, but should have been in the same arena as Leo. You want a Best Supporting Actor? Look to Michael B. Jordan as Adonis "Donnie" Creed, who was excellent throughout.
Everything in this film is terrific, nothing dragged, was overdone or was drawn out. All the Rocky movies are terrific and so is this one. Many of us also enjoyed this for a small trip down Memory Lane and were not disappointed.
All the final fight scenes in all the Rocky movies were spot on, brutal and some believe they were quite real and not a thing of movie magic. (Pretty sure they were all movie magic) All the supporting cast and technicians involved should be very proud of this movie.
Notables: Liev Schreiber: Narrator for a while in the beginning; Phylicia Rashad as Mary Anne Creed, : the stepmother of Aldonis; Tessa Thompson as Bianca, the love interest of Adonis; Sports Announcers: Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon, and Hannah Storm as themselves.
All in all a terrific movie, thoroughly entertaining and one of the best boxing movies ever. (9/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: One F-bomb and that wasn't all that clear.