Just noticed that Creed continues the Roman numbering scheme. Huh.
Jonathan "Dame" Majors gets out of prison (a fact that may precursor real life events, we'll see), and gets together with his old buddy Creed to do some boxing. Because they were big friends back in the day, in a backstory that we only found out in this movie, but that's standard for sequels. But Dame fights too hard, so Creed gets out of retirement to have a scrap, as they have decided that boxing is the way to settle this, even though they've proved by that point that they are willing to actually fight in real life so willingness to deal with it in the structured rules of the ring is a bit of a "this is how the movie works".
Good performances around, from Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors. Others are also in this movie, such as Tessa Thompson, but frankly the movie is all about those two so the rest of the cast are a bit of an add on.
The story is rather basic, just a few big moments, although I am surprised this is the shorted Creed film so far, it feels long. And I can't recall the previous movies, so call backs to that, and returning characters, went over my head. Perhaps a rescreening would have been useful? But then the movie should be able to stand on its own.
Decent enough movie, certainly a worth entry in the series.
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