POUTY!

Rating: 6/10 (30 November 2018)

Hi ELLIOT GJAZZ here. Just saw CREED2. If there was an Oscar for moody pouted lips , then this would sure win it. Sly, Mikey, Dolph, Florian, Woody all pouted as if they were born that way, hell even the girls Tessa ( incidentally who I liked in THOR RAGNAROK ) and BIG BRIGITTE pouted a little as well. Bruce Willis Mr. pout himself wouldn't have had a look in. The only actor who cracked a smile was Russell Hornsby ( who i saw last in Fences and The hate you give, and was ex in both ).
After I saw ROCKY in 1976 , I went out and bought the soundtrack album as soon as it was available. The brilliant Bill Conti ( responsible for many great soundtracks of which my favourites were GLORIA 1980 and AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 1978 ). I came out the cinema humming GONNAE FLY NOW, which I thought was an extremely original piece. I was at that time into Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Michel Legrand, Quincy Jones , John Williams, Lalo Shifrin and many others who I am nuts about. Bill's music was new and different. GFN was used many times in the film, with variants on the theme , however the actual main theme when he was running up the steps is best well remembered. Bill Conti also co wrote some nice soulful songs for the film which again complemented the film well.
Here's the thing after seeing CREED 2 , I wasn't that keen on the constant rapp music, I know it's what the young people are into these days, but it could have done without it. It was a nice Score by LUDWIG GORANSSON . As well as his own composition he did variants on Bill Conti's original Rocky themes, there
Just wasn't enough of that in the film.
Anyway back to the FILM . Solid Performances, from all the cast, the fight scenes were done really well, I felt however it was a little slow and the story kind of not realistic enough for me. I do not like to give away Spoilers unlike Mark Kermode , so I won,t. When I go to a film , I want to come out feeling invigorated, like I did recently with THE HATE U GIVE, sadly with this film I did not.