Saw the movie yesterday. I liked it a lot but it obviously isn’t touching the first. My respect for Coogler went up even more after this, and it’s not like Caple is a bad Director at all. It’s just that I can feel Caple nodding to Stallone more whereas Creed was Coogler’s vision through and through.
I honestly wanted to see more of The Dragos. Their story was more interesting. I liked that they were humanized.
I teared up when Adonis proposed to Bianca, but that was mostly because of me thinking about when I proposed. It’s very hard to do.
Their little girl being deaf was tough too. Sadly, that was the main scene that showed me MBJ’s shortcomings as an actor. He don’t make good faces. It sounds weird but he can’t make a good face to capture moments well. The hospital bed is another example.
Does it feel weird to anyone how it feels like Wood Harris’ character don’t care about Adonis as much despite knowing him since he was a child?
I thought the fight scenes were good, although not as good as the first.
I am not sure where a third goes, but Rocky will obviously die before the third one. I wonder if they will bring in Rocky’s son to support Adonis in some way? Especially since dude is getting a lot of pub in This is Us.
This was like a 7.5/10 for me. It got too much into the over the top world of Rocky, when the first one was grounded.
