Indifferent follow up

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2019)

I was curious to see how the story unfolds after a great start for the next gen by Creed. Unfortunately nothing much was achieved cinematically.
Basically a revenge story this one, probably expected , as creed started with the same premise. Creed started by the protagonist, son of creed, coming into boxing to get revenge for his father's death. Naturally drago had to come into his with his own son to have a match up. Less drama there. All the fights follow same pattern. Lose first and then come back stronger and beat the bad guy. Lovely to see Dolph lundgren after a longtime. In the fights His son looked menacing and hugely powerful. Somehow it's difficult to digest that he was made to lose. Also nothing spectacular was done by creed to achieve this feat.
In between the two fights, the movie meanders. No big dramatic thing happens. No intrigue. No special character builds up. Which was an important part of the first instalment.
The wife of Creed had less part and even less singing. The music also was only good in parts.
Well shot otherwise.
A sense of deja vú stays throughout. I didn't see the version with Dolph's Ukrainian/Russian dialogues translated, so didn't get what they were discussing with his supposedly ?wife? Amiss for me.
Overall a disappointment.