Hey, was anyone looking for a great Jonathan Majors antagonist performance over in the quantum realm? We found it over in the Los Angeles boxing saga of Creed III. rockmarooned reviews Michael B. Jordan's directorial debut:
that serves as the lynchpin for its case as perhaps the best legacy sequel/years-later franchise extension of recent memory. During the climactic boxing match pitting underdog challenger Adonis “Donnie” Creed against a current champion, Creed confesses his greatest fear to his coach, Rocky Balboa , who you may remember from six previousfilms, encompassing a 1976 Best Picture winner, a 1985 Cold War clip-show, and a 2006 old-man-comeback picture, among others.
took a baby step away from its parent franchise, developing Creed’s world while leaving time for a Rocky subplot . This time, Rocky is mentioned briefly but unseen, and Creed’s big opponent is a sui-generis figure from his past, not Rocky’s. Stallone may grumble, but the spinoff process is complete. The series belongs to Creed now.
Which also means that it fully belongs to Michael B. Jordan — not least because he takes a Stallone-like step into the director’s chair with this third installment. That weird alchemy between autobiography and self-mythologizing that makes thesequels fascinating even as they fail to live up to the magic of the original is very much active here, as Donnie feels the tension between his traumatic childhood and the luxury he now enjoys as a retired boxing champ.
It’s inevitable that Donnie and Damian will eventually clash in the ring, despite Donnie’s supposed retirement; nomovie, no matter how well-crafted, has calculated its way out of boxing-movie formulas. Most of this ranges from satisfying clichés executed with skill or minor irritants with some boilerplate function .
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