In the great rocky spin off Creed, Sylvester Stallone hands off the eye of the TigerTiger to Michael B. Jordan. The setup seems vaguely improbable, but even more improbable is that the newest installment of the Rocky franchise is really quite good. The film introduces us to a young Adonis Krit, the son of former champ Apollo Creed, a man he never knew. Adonis wants to be a fighter and wants his father's old enemy turned best friend, Rocky Balboa, to train him. Hesitant at first, Rocky agrees. The scenes between Rocky and Adonis are one of the highlights of the movie. Watching the two men size each other up, figuring out what the other's made of could not be more enjoyable. Along the way, Adonis finds love with a singer, Bianca, and she, too, becomes a part of Rocky's life and struggles. Crede could easily be called Rocky seven, but the movie, like Adonis, wants to earn its right to be here to be a boxing film about more than just boxing. It doesn't want to simply trade on its lineage. What's more, Creed proves worthy. Like any Rocky movie, Creed has to deliver great boxing, and it does just that. Adonis first fight with Rocky as his trainer is filmed in what is made to seem like a single shot.
It is incredible to watch unfold the second fight. The climax of the film isn't quite as wonderfully orchestrated, but it still manages to get those in the theater cheering for adults. While no one would blame Stallone for not wanting to appear in this Rocky movie, that's not all that much about Rocky Stallone still gives it his all. This isn't the same young boxer who was in the first movie, but he does seem like the absolutely logical progression of the character we have seen through the years. The charismatic and memorable Jordin makes Adonis a fully realized character. The movie does try a little too hard to tell us just how much Adonis like Apollo. But he's more than believable as a young man struggling to figure out who he is and where he belongs. Anyone who goes see looking for a movie to deliver something new and different from what they've seen before is going to be sorely disappointed. The film does nothing to break the mold. Rather, it shows that the mold exists for a reason. In the end, we can only hope that we'll get to see a done creed on screen for just as long as we've seen Rocky.
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