Creed 2 plays like the dark, emotional reboot of 1985’s Rocky IV, a description that doesn’t quite do justice to just how well this film works.
The sequel to Creed—with director Steven Caple Jr.
stepping in for Ryan Coogler—sees Adonis Johnson (Michael B.
Jordan) feeling the pressure of the light heavyweight championship around his shoulder, the same belt his father once defended.
With his fiance Bianca’s (Tessa Thompson) star on the rise as well, Adonis’ life is upended when the man who killed Apollo Creed, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), arrives in Philadelphia to announce the …
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