For its kind it's OK, but it was not great...

Rating: 7/10 (21 March 2016)

If you love rocky, then you probably rated this with more than eight out of ten. I didn't but I still gave it a seven. It was an intense movie. I did not buy the fact that this guy was doing amazing in a company and he just gave it all up to become a boxer cause it was in his gut to do so... I just don't think it's realistic!
But he did, and then he went into the strange boxing world of Philly, back to his roots, to find himself. And then he finds a girl that just like Adrian had some kind of serious health problem. Why? Was that really necessary? Boxing wise the movie had everything the average fan would like to see. I don't know how close to the reality it was but for me it was close enough.
Liked the occasional joke here and there and I have to say that Stalone was born for this part. For all his parts in Rocky and Creed. Nothing more. But for those roles he was the best there could ever be. The lymphoma twist was OK but again it was not explored as much as it could have been so it remained fairly superficial apart from some powerful scenes in the house where he is being carried to the toilet to vomit.
The fight in the end was as expected as the end in a Disney story, but still it was intense. A bit far fetched again, but this is the trademark of the series so I was fine. Could have been a lot better than it was, but it was pretty decent still. Not a chance for an Oscar Sylvester, sorry, no matter how heart breaking it is to see you come back with this movie, 35 or something years after the first.