When others are more interesting than Adonis himself

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2019)

Pros:

It still has its momentums that can refill the audience's interest towards the movie, its characters and story with its good training montages and a bit forced, rocky-like stereotypical yet still sufficient happenings.
Rocky still has some unfinished business which will touch our emotions and memories left over from his own saga.
Overall the movie still works as a Rocky/Creed movie, becoming a decent sequel, and an entry to this franchise.

Cons:

The whole franchise ran out of its steam, and this movie is the symptom of this problem.
Adonis became probably the less interesting character when they brought back Ivan Drago vs. Rocky background plot, the Rocky vs. his fear of his own son and of course the son of Ivan Drago, Viktor. There are moments when you kinda have the feeling this movie should be more built around Viktor, and call the movie VIKTOR.
Story around Viktor is not well articulated, especially in the last act, yet it should have reach some closure with him. But probably this is bit based on my ignorance as the russian scenes somehow weren't subtitled, so whatever they have been talking about in those scenes I have mostly no idea.
The whole motivations behind the "defending the Creed Legacy" and "becoming a good man in a family" sometimes falls short, it's not sure enough in places during the movie.

Overall: Decent, watchable, but we don't need more Rocky/Creed movies. We have enough.