(12A) Ryan Coogler, 133 mins. Starring: Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad
The boxing movie just won't go away. Ryan Coogler's Creed, a follow-up to the Rocky series, is only the latest in a very long line of fight films. It's a rousing but thoroughly corny affair. This is a film steeped in nostalgia: one that, for all of its references to death, illness and brain-damage in the ring, turns out to be an old-fashioned exercise in Cinderella-like escapism.
If you can stomach the schmaltz and suspend your disbelief in the face of the film's pounding predictability, you'll find plenty to enjoy.
The 69-year-old Sylvester Stallone is back again as Rocky Balboa. What makes his performance so moving and so unusual is
that the Italian Stallion seems, finally, to be accepting his age. This isn't Stallone in OAP action mode, waving machine guns and running after baddies, as in the Expendables movies or Rambo sequels. Here, we really have the sense that his joints are creaking and he's out of breath.
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The boxing movie just won't go away. Ryan Coogler's Creed, a follow-up to the Rocky series, is only the latest in a very long line of fight films. It's a rousing but thoroughly corny affair. This is a film steeped in nostalgia: one that, for all of its references to death, illness and brain-damage in the ring, turns out to be an old-fashioned exercise in Cinderella-like escapism.
If you can stomach the schmaltz and suspend your disbelief in the face of the film's pounding predictability, you'll find plenty to enjoy.
The 69-year-old Sylvester Stallone is back again as Rocky Balboa. What makes his performance so moving and so unusual is
that the Italian Stallion seems, finally, to be accepting his age. This isn't Stallone in OAP action mode, waving machine guns and running after baddies, as in the Expendables movies or Rambo sequels. Here, we really have the sense that his joints are creaking and he's out of breath.
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