Predictable? Yes. Entertaining? Yes.

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2019)

I felt the first half of this film surpassed CREED in both tone, writing and pacing. Once the obligatory "training montage" kicked in I felt my cringe levels increasing.
I liked that the opponent got a little bit of fleshing out instead of just being the "big bad" but I would have liked to have seen a bit more.
The story is insanely predictable but that doesn't stop it being enjoyable.
Some of the negative reviews on here are unjustified but I can see why Rocky purists will dislike it.