Dir: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Michael B. Jordan (Creed), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Tessa Thompson (Bianca)
Prod: New Line cinema, 2015
Distributor: MGM & United Artist, 2015
Don’t be fooled by the title, Creed is basically Rocky 7. However, I feel like calling it that would almost be an insult to it's worth. With apologies to Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago, Ryan Coogler’s rousingly emotional and captivating new film is the best installment since the 1976 original. It’s easy to read that last sentence and shrug, but Sylvester Stallone’s first Rocky was a dark, downbeat masterpiece that reflected its New Hollywood era [what do you mean by this statement?]. Creed taps into that same gritty underdog authenticity [nice]. Michael B. Jordan, re-teaming with his Fruitvale Station director, plays Adonis Johnson―the out-of-wedlock son of Rocky’s love-hate rival, Apollo Creed.
This film not only captures the journey of Adonis Creed nee Donnie Johnson trying to fill his fathers shoes with the help of Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), but it also has an emotional aspect to it with a love interest. Adonis meets neighbor Bianca (Tessa Thompson), who just happens to be an extremely foxy singer who's not only losing her hearing, but is also doing some local performing at the moment [this may all be accurate, but your syntax/sentence construction is somewhat confusing]. Their budding relationship is definitely a joy to watch. It reminds me of the classic Rocky film where we fall in love with the connection Balboa shares with Adrian.
Creed is an overall wholesome film, both in and out of the ring, a movie about an exceptional young man who has the benefit of an exceptional past and turns it into an exceptional future. It evokes [???] the young people who are condemned to ordinary neglect, racism, incarceration and who are all the more extraordinary in the force of their endurance. Michael B. Jordan did his job as Adonis Johnson and showed us what it really means to have all odds against you and still come out on top [nice strong finish].
This film not only captures the journey of Adonis Creed nee Donnie Johnson trying to fill his fathers shoes with the help of Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), but it also has an emotional aspect to it with a love interest. Adonis meets neighbor Bianca (Tessa Thompson), who just happens to be an extremely foxy singer who's not only losing her hearing, but is also doing some local performing at the moment [this may all be accurate, but your syntax/sentence construction is somewhat confusing]. Their budding relationship is definitely a joy to watch. It reminds me of the classic Rocky film where we fall in love with the connection Balboa shares with Adrian.
Creed is an overall wholesome film, both in and out of the ring, a movie about an exceptional young man who has the benefit of an exceptional past and turns it into an exceptional future. It evokes [???] the young people who are condemned to ordinary neglect, racism, incarceration and who are all the more extraordinary in the force of their endurance. Michael B. Jordan did his job as Adonis Johnson and showed us what it really means to have all odds against you and still come out on top [nice strong finish].
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