Adonis Creed is back for another fight of his life and like Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) after earning his title as World Heavyweight Champion, the young boxer sees his legacy and title being challenged, by a person in his past he had allowed himself to forget. Set seven years after Adonis’ fight with Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), where he earned...
Adonis Creed is back for another fight of his life and like Rocky Balboa after earning his title as World Heavyweight Champion, the young boxer sees his legacy and title being challenged, by a person in his past he had allowed himself to forget.
They say money, fame and prison can change you as a person and while Adonis has become the King of Boxing and seemingly forgot his humble roots, Dame hasn’t. After 18 years in prison, he is thirsty to prove himself and achieve the life he deemed was supposed to be his. Adonis came into the series as the illegitimate son of Rocky’s friend, Apollo Creed, and we’ve seen father-son conflict come in and out of the franchise quite a few times – Viktor and Ivan Drago is an excellent example. Though there were rumours and expectations that Majors’ Dame would be revealed as boxer James ‘Clubber’ Lang’s son, Creed III shows that it can still be somewhat original with its characters and still uphold the franchise’s legacy.
Creed III is also the first movie in the Rocky franchise to not have Stallone and even though there were limited opportunities for Jordan to squeeze the 76-year-old actor in, his absence is felt. Adonis is clearly stepping into Rocky’s shoes and taking on a mentorship/later phase of his career this time around, but in some way, Rocky fought hard to become the teacher so Jordan lacks the gravitas that Stallone had.
Additionally, we enjoyed seeing more of Thompson’s Bianca in this film. She’s no longer just Adonis’ love interest or simply a supporting wife and character to Adonis Creed. Bianca has her own dreams and aspirations that unfortunately like Adonis, she had to let go of too. We see her struggle with her career and parenthood, and learn more about the sacrifices she’s had to make in order to live a life that she can truly enjoy with Adonis and their daughter.
Our main gripe is how the first half of the film spent a big chunk of time discussing Dame’s ‘Checkmate’ move that Adonis had seemingly adopted, but we never saw it again. We would be lying if we said we didn’t expect the two boxers to use ‘Checkmate’ in their final fight against each other but alas, like Stallone in the ring, that’s a thing of the past.
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