Creed is a 2015 boxing drama set in the Rocky universe. Creed stars Michael B. Jordan (Adonis Creed), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Tessa Thompson (Bianca), Tony Bellow ("Pretty" Ricky Conlan, and Andre Ward ("Stuntman" Wheeler).
The movie starts off with Adonis Creed nee Johnson in a juvenile detention center. His father's widow Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad of Cosby fame) visits him offers to take him in as her foster child. Seventeen years later Adonis AKA Donnie quits his job at a securities firm right after getting a promotion so he can go and be a boxer. His foster mother opposes his idea of becoming a boxer because she fears he could die in the ring just like her husband and his father.
Adonis tries out for a boxing opportunity at a family friend's gym [the Adelphi Gym (allusion?) where his father trained] and gets turned down once he gets destroyed in the ring. Adonis travels to Philadelphia to seek out Rocky Balboa's help. He finds Rocky at the rocky owned Italian restaurant "Adrian". Rocky eventually agrees and reveals that Apollo won a secret third fight against Rocky. Adonis trains at the front street gym with several of rocky's friends. After a while he meets his love interest; Bianca, who likes to sing and write songs. When Adonis defeats a local fighter word gets out that he is Apollo Creeds son and he is asked if he wants to fight the light heavyweight champion Ricky Conlan. Soon after Adonis finds out that Rocky has cancer and starts to convince him to get treatment. At the fight Adonis eventually loses but he gets praise from Ricky Conlan because of how well of a fight he put up.
Creed was an amazing movie. The story telling and the continuation of the Rocky story made the film great. I love the chemistry Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone have. I also love how well the director Ryan Coogler put the story together. Now I can't wait to see Black Panther which is directed by Ryan Coogler and it stars Michael B. Jordan.
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