I have been long awaiting for this movie. However, for the first time of my life in Rocky/Creed universe I left the cinema somewhat dissapointed and confused. I watched a movie with so many script flows like:
1. The ticket that Adonis gave Damian was about Ali's and Foreman fight. Given that Apollo Creed represented Muhammad Ali and lived along his era, this is weird 2. Drago was able to hit Adonis but not able to fight with Dame.
3. Mary Anne told Adonis while dying that there is another way in life rather than fighting while some moments later Bianca proposed Adonis that he should fight Dame 4. Adonis was like having a very flat emotional pattern throughout the whole movie and that was very obvious 5. No explanation for Rocky's absence. There were certain times where Rocky would be somewhere there, like Mary Anne's funeral or the fight of Adonis or in a phone call. Even if Rocky's dead, it should be mentioned but no 6. Instead of letting Chavez or Drago fight Damian, Adonis chose to compete with him and suggested the idea during a TV appearance.
7. Going from round 2 to round 11 without any fight scene is at least not smooth 8. Bianca had very little screen time 9. The movie was very predictable and that was a common sense in the hall I was in watching the movie 10. The soundtrack was not inspirational and certainly not heroic 11. The movie suggested that you cant run from your past, however even in Creed 2 , Drago was a ghost from the past 12. The Dame Chavez fight.was more complete in relation to Dame Adonis fight 13. When the movie starts it is in 2002 and then it the Conal fight happens after 15 years, which is 2017. However the Creed Drago fight took place in 2018, whichwas the date of the movie 14. Mary Ann was helding Dame's letters in her kitchen for all those years, without having the fear that Adonis could have picked them 15. While Duke says to Adonis about the broken hands, in the next scene Adonis hits a tree with his fists 16. It would be very wise for at least once, that Creed would lose to another fighter and allow some open space for someone else to step in. Even Chavez should recovere and fight Dame again along with the help of Creed. Like his father did in Rocky 3 17. While wearing a white shorts in the final fight, Creed did not have a single blood spot in his shorts 18. It is a little bit weird that despite all this atmosphere between Adonis and Dame, in the end they forgive each other ina very simplistic way that is not very well understood 19. Dame told Adonis in the end, that he learned more moves than the ones that he had taught him. Of course Dame he would do since he is Apollo's son and a pupil of Rocky.
20. Michael B Jordan had a very similar acting way to respond emotionally to almost all scenes and that was very obvious
Overall , Rocky was a big miss in this movie which resulted to a lack of sentimental atmosphere and to the loss of connective tissue between the various parts, heroes etc of the movie. Let's hope that Creed 4 will take a very different path, more connected to the original Creed Rocky universe.
1. The ticket that Adonis gave Damian was about Ali's and Foreman fight. Given that Apollo Creed represented Muhammad Ali and lived along his era, this is weird 2. Drago was able to hit Adonis but not able to fight with Dame.
3. Mary Anne told Adonis while dying that there is another way in life rather than fighting while some moments later Bianca proposed Adonis that he should fight Dame 4. Adonis was like having a very flat emotional pattern throughout the whole movie and that was very obvious 5. No explanation for Rocky's absence. There were certain times where Rocky would be somewhere there, like Mary Anne's funeral or the fight of Adonis or in a phone call. Even if Rocky's dead, it should be mentioned but no 6. Instead of letting Chavez or Drago fight Damian, Adonis chose to compete with him and suggested the idea during a TV appearance.
7. Going from round 2 to round 11 without any fight scene is at least not smooth 8. Bianca had very little screen time 9. The movie was very predictable and that was a common sense in the hall I was in watching the movie 10. The soundtrack was not inspirational and certainly not heroic 11. The movie suggested that you cant run from your past, however even in Creed 2 , Drago was a ghost from the past 12. The Dame Chavez fight.was more complete in relation to Dame Adonis fight 13. When the movie starts it is in 2002 and then it the Conal fight happens after 15 years, which is 2017. However the Creed Drago fight took place in 2018, whichwas the date of the movie 14. Mary Ann was helding Dame's letters in her kitchen for all those years, without having the fear that Adonis could have picked them 15. While Duke says to Adonis about the broken hands, in the next scene Adonis hits a tree with his fists 16. It would be very wise for at least once, that Creed would lose to another fighter and allow some open space for someone else to step in. Even Chavez should recovere and fight Dame again along with the help of Creed. Like his father did in Rocky 3 17. While wearing a white shorts in the final fight, Creed did not have a single blood spot in his shorts 18. It is a little bit weird that despite all this atmosphere between Adonis and Dame, in the end they forgive each other ina very simplistic way that is not very well understood 19. Dame told Adonis in the end, that he learned more moves than the ones that he had taught him. Of course Dame he would do since he is Apollo's son and a pupil of Rocky.
20. Michael B Jordan had a very similar acting way to respond emotionally to almost all scenes and that was very obvious
Overall , Rocky was a big miss in this movie which resulted to a lack of sentimental atmosphere and to the loss of connective tissue between the various parts, heroes etc of the movie. Let's hope that Creed 4 will take a very different path, more connected to the original Creed Rocky universe.