Fight The Good Fight

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2016)

Unless we're talking James Bond by the time a film franchise wheels out number seven moviegoers can be forgiven for leaving their jaded palates at home but Creed is actually much better than any seventh entry in a franchise has a right to be. For one thing Rocky Balboa has wisely hung up his gloves and all the retinue surrounding him have been killed off either really or metaphorically leaving only Rocky himself in the shape of Sylvester Stallone and what amounts to a new, improved Rocky in the shape of Michael B. Jordan, the son of Rocky's great rival and later friend, Apollo Creed, also resident in the big gym in the sky. The premise is simple. Creed junior wants Balboa retired to train him until he's ready for a crack at the title. Once Stallone agrees we're all set for s reprise of the original Rocky. The training montage, the taunts, pressure, the climactic fight. You're right, we have seen it all before but most of us have eaten top sirloin before and followed it with pie a la mode, does that mean it doesn't taste just as good the hundredth time we dig in.