Surprisingly terrible

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2016)

It was a very formulaic movie. Michael B. Jordan has the same scowl on his face during the entire movie. His trash talk in the ring 99 % of the time is "come on" and he beats his chest and tries too hard to look pumped. Sylvester Stallone looks like he has 5 heart beats per minute and manages to say a depressed sentence now and then. Creed's relationship with his gf, Bianca, feels completely tacked on to appeal to a female audience and because a movie just has to have a love interest but she is a cliché. She gets dramatic over nothing and they never seem to connect. One reason is because Jordan can't improvise or do anything beyond that anguished scowl and their conversations are awkward mutterings between strangers. His mom is there to generate more contrived drama thru really cringe worthy emoting. I hated this movie. What made the other rocky's great were the villains. Rocky was us facing these larger than life comic book super bad guys. From appollo, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago... Pretty Ricky isn't introduced really until the latter middle of the movie. He's utterly forgettable. I don't get the love for this movie and I very much wanted to.