A Rock Hard Creed.

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2016)

This is the best I've seen Michael B. Jordan. He gave this role the type of fight that's necessary to stand your ground and hold your own, inside a ring. He wasn't amazing, but he did a great job, far better than I thought he would... He showed growth, and that is a step in the right direction. He didn't win the fight... But, he won the night.
Sylvester Stallone was very natural and comfortable in his role as Rocky... He was rock solid. His performance was mature and convincing... Realistic and artistic at the same time, and though Rocky may have been Donnie's mentor, it also felt as if Sylvester was Michael's mentor too, and you could almost feel it oozing past the fourth wall.
Ryan Coogler is young, true, but, he shows promise in this film. The direction and story though at times it would creep along, Creed, still remained strong, on it's legs. It's not a complex screenplay. Friendship, Love, Loyalty, Rite of Passage, and the execution, heartfelt. Tessa Thompson won me over too effortlessly... She was just too gorgeous, and her performance was just as attractive. She owned the camera and was in charge of her character.
Jordan, Stallone, Coogler and Thompson were a compelling force, in a journey of discovery and definition, with inspirational elements that hit home... However, I feel this couldn't have been accomplished as well as it was, had it not been for Ludovin. The score is a pool of beautiful rhythmic, melodic and harmonic waves, that you can't help but want to be immersed in.
Creed is a story we already know, but, as with any other story of this nature, if it fails at being motivational and just, awe- inspiring, it ultimately loses whatever purpose it was intending to achieve. Creed, did not fail in doing this.
7.9/10.