Decent

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2018)

Actually good-ish. In short: Good character development for Adonis, his girlfriend/wife and Rocky, decent main plot but the good training montages of the Rocky movies were like a character in themselves, in this movie the training montage isn't good enough for me, also the scrip lacks a proper villain backstory - both of which aren't overwhelming things to achieve since they were done properly before.
I didn't go in with high expectations so the movie was actually a lot better than I expected - I was expecting something akin to the Disney Star War movies or something made purely for commercial gain, it wasn't. The plot develops Adonis' story and character a lot but it lacked a developed "villain", unfortunately we didn't really get much of Viktor Drago, his motivation and his ambitions other than his dad, Ivan Drago, pushing him from behind and very few moments of his mother. I didn't like the training montage either, I feel like the movie didn't know if it wanted to be a classic Rocky movie or not. There was drama regarding Adonis' family but in the end it's not resolved in any way (it doesn't even seem to affect Adonis after Rocky simply told him a few words). Viktor Drago was played well for what the script allowed the actor to do but If the movie was 30 minutes shorter or if those 30 minutes were spent on developing Adonis' rival then it could have possibly be a movie of the year. Good effort.