Review of Creed II (2018) by Linttaflamingo — 15 Apr 2020

Yes!

I've been procrastinating on this one for forever, and people kept saying that this one isn't as good as the first Creed. That blinds us easily. It easily makes us think that something's just straight up not worth watching because it's "not as good.".

But this thing was great. I like that it didn't forcefully introduce any new characters but instead just developed Creed, Bianca and Rocky more. Those are the characters I enjoy watching and there was more to learn about them so why not? Bianca has a small singing thing going for her and she sounded gooooooood. The only thing I was a bit indifferent on was the pregnancy ****. It happens immediately after they have sex after Creed proposes. Why does it always happen like that? Like they've been together for a while and only now she gets greganananant. Did they have sex for the first time? That whole thing was pretty pointless overall.

While fine to watch, the story follows the same predictable formula. It's the same thing again; Creed wins a fight, takes another fight since he's overly confident and loses it and then you go through some mental ups and downs and get ready to fight the same dude again. Nothing groundbreaking is done here, but the directing is good so it's still enjoyable to watch. The training montages were great, the character moments felt genuine, and the camerawork was fun, albeit not as creative as in the first Creed. Bianca's small music subplot is used creatively during the last fight's entrance which I thought was very surprising and awesome. The soundtrack to the movie itself was great too. Rap, once again, by many artists that specifically made music for this film. I loved it.

The antagonist or whatever the **** main boxing bad guy was pretty good too. Nothing too special but they took an old bad guy from the Rocky's who had cummed a son, and made the son some sort of killing machine. It was an interesting twist, but it's not like Creed was gonna lose anyway since the whole movie builds up to that last fight in the same way every Rocky movie does. But it was fine. Not the old bad guy though. The actor was bad. Also sometimes the fight scenes looked fake and the audience looked like two extras copy pasted to be an entire boxing audience.