Creed – Movie Review

Creed is a reboot of the boxing saga Rocky. Introducing Adonis Creed, the son of the infamous Apollo Creed, with Sylvester Stallone returning as Rocky Balboa. This is the boxing drama for the millennials, which digs deep into self-discovery, family relations and finding your passion in life.

Adonis Creed (Played by Michael B. Jordan) is your modern day Hollywood millennial, who’s already going places with his financial advisor career, but he is still an rōnin. Who’s searching a greater purpose for himself. He’s always fought and therefore he wants to become a boxer, but without getting the easy joy ride with his family name.

This is the contrast between Balboa and Creed, Balboa was a poor Italian-American who created the American dream (and Sylvester Stallone himself created his American Dream through Rocky) by becoming a champion at boxing and earning the necessary monetary funds to support his family. Creed doesn’t have to cope with these issues, which reflects the same on millennials as well, so the motivation to go from a high-end luxury job that is a guaranteed fund of money, is to seek the clan where Creed truly belongs to: the boxing world.

The boxing matches are adrenaline fuelled, the shots are done third person with over the shoulder view of the boxers. The music hits the right moment and the theatre enhances the audio, the big screen creates the spectacular simulation that you, the audience member are in the ring and you are the protagonist. I still can’t shake the feeling of excitement off from the big fights Creed goes through: pure, visceral, raw masculinity.

Directed by Ryan Googler and written with Aaron Covington. Googler honours the past Rocky movies with cute Easter eggs and familiar tropes, incredibly loyal to the first three Rocky Movies. 

The highest give away the movie has by far is Sylvester Stallone’s charming performance as the loving father figure and mentor to Adonis, finding a new sense of purpose and thus, we are reminded that it is the journey in life that matters truly.