![]() ![]() (At one point Rocky refers to himself as "a chunk of yesterday. In between, the script by Stallone and Juel Taylor sets up copious, crosscutting training montages and a heap of familial challenges, including a baby a falling-out between Rocky and Adonis and some lines that only Stallone could've written. He just will not let him out of that corner, and Rocky Balboa is just trying to get through. Get up Get up Drago Come on, Rock Drago continuing to punish Rocky Balboa. The second match rolls in for the climax. A right hand from Drago sends Rocky Balboa 15 feet across the ring And the champ is down Back up Drago Drago Drago Drago Drago Breathe. The first of the two big championships in Creed II arrives at the 45-minute mark, which then puts our hero, Adonis, in prime position for soul-searching setbacks. The match-up can't lose, publicity-wise: The son of the Drago, who killed Apollo, challenges the Adonis of Apollo, out for his own sequel of revenge. ![]() The son of Drago (Lundgren again, and he's pretty great, actually) is a brute named Viktor (Florian Munteanu, paid by the hungry-bear glare). This time it's the same, only … the same, more or less. ![]() Then Rocky Balboa took on Drago for a bloody happy ending, and in the ring in Moscow, Rocky called for glasnost and world peace in an extremely long speech that predated Reagan's "tear down this wall" by two years. In that picture, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) went down, for good, at the fists of doped-up Russian monster Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). It is a direct continuation, 33 years later, of the events laid out with a right hook in Rocky IV (1985). His previous feature The Land dealt with Cleveland skateboarders with big dreams. It is directed capably if indistinctly by Steven Caple Jr. ![]()
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