Years after Adonis Creed made a name for himself under Rocky Balboa's mentorship, the young boxer becomes the Heavyweight Champion of the World. While life is good with that victory and his marriage to Bianca, trouble comes to Philadelphia when Ivan Drago, the Russian boxer who killed Adonis' father, Apollo, arrives with his son, Viktor, to challenge Adonis. Against Rocky's advice, Adonis accepts the challenge without his mentor's participation and pays the price in a punishing bout he wins only by a technicality. Now injured and demoralized, Adonis cannot bring himself back into the game, leaving his spirit and title in jeopardy. Together, Adonis' family and Rocky must find a way to rekindle Adonis' fighting spirit to face the future in whatever choice he makes. Meanwhile, the Drago family has its own troubles trying to regain respect in their homeland that they lost at Rocky's hands as they wonder whether it is truly worth it. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
CREED II is directed by Steven Caple Jr., written by Juel Taylor & Sylvester Stallone, produced by William Chartoff. Well you know how it goes, you see the first film and then you got to see the sequel. In this case it was exactly that as I found CREED to be fairly good.
I was hoping for something memerable to happen in this film as it seemed both films had cameos from characters from the original ROCKY films. I thought that all was a nice touch although like I stated I was hoping for something memorable to shake things up. Even though what I hoped did not happen I found a sequel that tied a nice bow on a group of films that spanned several decades.
In the End: I found CREED II to be a likable film not much for breaking from the formula or being too edgy, but if it works it works. So for this film I give it 3 of 5 stars.
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