This movie is unreal!

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2018)

I love the Rocky franchise, arguably excluding the weird 5th instalment. Even Rocky Balboa (6) was great, stupid.... okay sure a bit stupid, a pensioner wants to fight the champion because of a virtual fight where he wins at the age of 60 something, so the champion accepts to prove he can beat a pensioner and then the pensioner proves that heart can overcome arrogance... I digress, it just works!
Where Creed is different, Adonis is damaged in a way that Michael B Jordan portrays far too well. Rocky is relegated to the role of walking fortune cookie which is great. The beauty of this Is, Rocky IV suspended disbelief, are we really to believe that a, seemingly, invincible fighter who murdered a champion with his bare hands can be beaten because some smaller dude flipped some tired and ran a lot in Russia? Sure it worked but really?
First of all, they made Viktor Drago a machine... but a machine with flaws and humanity. This made it believable that Adonis could really beat him. They also didn't lower Dragos standard to meet Creeds, he fought the same in both fights, instead they completely changed Adonis' fighting style and used strategy.
I will be watching again, amazing! Great work.