26. Review: Creed III (2023 film)

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Episode 26 - Review: Creed III (2023 film)

Are you ready for one of the best directorial debuts of 2023? That’s what you get with the Michael B. Jordan helmed movie “Creed III”. I went into this movie with doubts: I was not sure of Jordan as a Director. Sylvester Stallone was not involved with this movie at all due to falling out with Producer Irwin Winkler. I was not sure about Jonathan Majors after the disappointment of “Ant-Man: Quantumania”. “The Book of Bobba Fett” composer (not a great soundtrack) Joseph Shirley was scoring this movie instead of Ludwig Goransson (Black Panther, Creed and Creed II, The Mandalorian, Tenet). I was wrong to worry about any of these parts. This movie fires on all cylinders. Jordan is back as Adonis Creed. It is a movie that is up there in quality with the first Creed (and the first Rocky movie too) in that it is not really a boxing movie. Don’t get me wrong the action (with some innovative anime-inspired moments) is phenomenal but the movie is a drama first. Jordan and the entire Creed III team really surprised me. My takeaway is for me to try better to remember that past work and performances are not an indication at all of what people can do in the future for better and for worse. Jonathan Majors, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Wood Harris and Mila Davis-Kent are all so great and each have their moments to shine in this movie. Creed’s daughter, Amara is deaf and the way this movie develops her character is really well-executed, thoughtful and wonderfully inclusive. Also now that Amazon owns MGM it is exciting to see where this franchise will go as the Creed-verse continues to unfold.

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