Creed is the latest worthy entry in Sylvester Stallone's Rocky series

Rating: 8/10 (5 December 2015)

My movie theatre-working friend had wanted to watch this since it premiered two weeks ago so he finally got to see it with me just a couple of hours ago. We both very much liked it-he probably more than me as he was more into the fights as I was just observing the way they were staged and managed to be impressed by them as opposed to cheering like my friend was doing. Michael B. Jordan was impressive as the son of Rocky's late opponent/trainer Apollo Creed shown in flashbacks when played by Carl Weathers. And, yes, Sylvester Stallone is fine as Rocky Balboa-now very much an old man resigned to just running his restaurant and later finding out he's suffering from lymphoma cancer-a disease my friend told me his late father suffered from. As you can tell from that, there are both some exciting fight scenes and good drama abounding in this film. And what's a Rocky movie without some of Bill Conti's score from the original one occasionally playing here? Conti, by the way, was a graduate of LSU which is where both my brother and sister attended with the latter graduating from there. In summary, Creed was a worthy entry in the series created by Stallone.