Michael B. Jordan shines (again) in the sturdy, moving 'Creed II'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Nov 23, 2018
3 minutes
"I don't want you making the same mistakes I made," Rocky Balboa says about halfway through "Creed II."
But by that point in this predictably rousing and emotionally generous movie, his warning, spoken by Sylvester Stallone with his usual weather-beaten palooka gravitas, comes rather too late. Adonis Creed - played, once again, by a sensational Michael B. Jordan - has already made a few of those same mistakes, the worst of which have cost him dearly in the ring opposite a bigger, faster, tougher opponent.
Without those mistakes, of course, there would be no
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