As expected, nothing original

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2018)

Yet one more movie that was created to exploit the human behavior of picking the known rather than the unknown and the effort of learning new characters. Its a lot easier to convince friends to join you at the movies when you suggest something they heard about. Right.
This isnt an excuse though from Stallone's and the creators part. Getting over the part that Sly is 99% looking for the recipe - at least in the past years - STILL, I dont think he should get a pass. You have the same ingredients here as in ALL the other Rocky titles. You have Russia vs United States (although the villain guy starts in Ukraine... not sure why, poor Ukrainians) you have the villain kicking the crap out of the good guy, you have the training sequence - but somewhere in the desert, where "boxers are reborn" (LOL) you have the trainer / trainee relationship, you have the girlfriend that stays by the main character. The whole deal.
Could this be done in a different way? Definitely, originality is limitless, but yeah, it requires a bit of courage. Not now I guess, do you Sly?