C R E E D
Holy Crap.
This past weekend I got the chance to catch the movie CREED.
Can I say bravo to Michael B. Jordan for putting an amazing performance on.
This movie is probably one of the greatest installments of the Rocky Franchise. It works just as well as a sequel to the original Rocky movie.
With CREED, Ryan Coogler takes an existing mythology and lovingly turns it into something new and very real, while Jordan takes a character who could easily be seen as unsympathetic, and turns him into someone exceedingly relatable.
Jordan plays Adonis Creed, a kid that liked to fight, and was brought up by his father's wife.
His father, Apollo Creed, died before he was born. Fighting Ivan Drago in the ring as we remember in Rocky IV.
Adonis quits his job in a business firm and moves to Philly to find Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, to train him. There, he meets Bianca, an up-n-coming singer with a degenerative hearing disorder who he also falls in love with. 
Creed isn’t complicated. It’s a simple story with just enough humanity sprinkled throughout to capture the hearts and minds of audiences who -- trust me when I say this -- will be cheering at the end of a movie that’s not nearly as predictable as you might think. You may love Stallone as Rambo, but Rambo’s the action star anti-hero. Rocky Balboa is Stallone’s heart and soul: the character that made him a star nearly 40 years ago, and still brings out his best.
Unlike the previous "Rocky" movies, however, Stallone wasn’t necessarily best suited to write this story. Instead, he chose Coogler, a filmmaker who’s still in touch with the struggle of becoming a professional filmmaker, and then some. That is what makes "Creed," the seventh "Rocky" movie, one of the best "Rocky" movies.
Just some thoughts I had about this amazing film I saw.
-Timothy
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