Not Quite on the Same Level as Its Predecessor

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2015)

This movie begins essentially where the first film left off with both "Rocky Balboa" (Sylvester Stallone) and "Apollo Creed" (Carl Weathers) being taken to the hospital following their brutal match. Although neither of them initially wanted a rematch events soon overtake both of them which results in Apollo Creed basically having to challenge Rocky in order to regain the respect of the public. Rocky, on the other hand, finds that life after the match with Apollo doesn't go as planned and he soon becomes faced with mounting debts and a pregnant wife by the name of "Adrian" (Talia Shire) to support. That said, rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that it pretty much followed the same pattern as the first movie except that it was even more slow and predictable. Now don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad movie by any means. But I don't believe it was on the same level as its predecessor and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.