I thought we already had a Rocky!

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2016)

This had such good critics reviews that I thought it might be worth the extra shot for a movie which lingers on the same theme and same idea but maybe did the job nicely with modern technology.
All expectations laid waste when I saw this movie. A comparison to Rocky was obvious. Since it was catching on the same theme, it was expected to at least show that much prowess, neatness and even tensile strength in story. What it turned out was a fluff which had interesting direction. The first quarter of the movie was giving it good direction. It had some new-ness of what you might expect from a movie in 2015, but kept the same base elements which made Rocky a hit back then.
But then it seemed to lost it. Whether to focus on training or to focus on the mind games about being a boxer with some history - the story sort of stayed in this dilemma and never took off to a direction. The fight also was not very interesting as compared to its paternal genre.
All in all, I do not think this is good enough to be in the same 'Creed' as a 'Rocky' before! Hence the 3/10