Creed III: Michael B. Jordan ensures the dynasty (critic)

A nice boxing film boosted by superheroic effects and carried by a duel of amazing actors, but which puts a little too easily Rocky away.

If the cinema exit from Creed III was not easy, fights Having broke out in several cinemas during its broadcast, the film of and with Michael B. Jordan well benefited from the spring of cinema 2023. In all, he attracted 2.3 million spectators in France, the biggest success of the trilogy. If we take into account the Rockyonly episodes 3 and 4 had done better, by attracting 3 and nearly 5 million curious theaters during their respective outings, in 1983 and 1986.

Creed There remains a phenomenon, yet the first broadcast of the latest episode, clearly on television, will be on TNT: See you Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on TFX. To wait, and also pending news from n ° 4, here is our detailed criticism of Creed III.

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“Things Just Ain’t the Same For Gangstas”… it’s to the sound of The Watcher from Dr. dre that starts -very strong, very well- Creed III : The sound of the illegal odyssey of the young Adonis, who left in the night to accompany her her friend Damian to lead a crucial boxing match. An odyssey that will become a drama, which Adonis will have to settle down once adult and world heavyweight champion. No, things are no longer the same: the Rocky saga has definitely moved from the cold streets of Philadelphia to the Los Angeles labyrinth and has become the Creed saga. Michael B. Jordan, who makes the film, fully accomplished the motto of his fictional father (Apollo) painted on the wall of his gymnasium: “Build your own heritage”. Now, Rocky Balboa is completely out of scope, and will not play any role in the intrigue of Creed III -it will only be cited once, Namedropé as a supporting role barely worthy of being referenced in the litany of Rockyverse legend boxers. It would not have taken much to exclude Stallone more cleanly from his own saga, for example by saying that he no longer answers the phone or that he simply moved on, for example, taking advantage of his retirement and his son with whom he finally reconciled. It really didn’t happen. Has a sentence. Or to the refrain of Dr. Dre’s song: “People I use to know just don now me no more”.

Inelegance? Yes, a little, all the same, just like the way in which the character of Damian is treated: played by the always amazing Jonathan Majors, the Nemesis of Adonis varies during the film, assuming all the nuances between the brave guy and the Machiavellian bastard according to the twists of the scenario, and taking in the end of the party of the rich and the powerful. Creed vs. Balboa, Creed winner, in short, and we are not sure that we like it, at the bottom. But all this does not prevent taking a very great pleasure as a simple spectator in front Creed IIIwhere Jordan is trying to be worthy of his predecessors -the Ryan Coogler, director of the first Creed And an inseparable partner of the actor, that of Stallone, whatever we say. Because Jordan, already excellent in Adonis, is worthy of it: it is a very good boxing film, completely up to what we could expect from a new Creed . Or even a little more: if the specifications are respected (defeat/training montage/victory), Jordan injects some staging ideas worthy of a superhero blockbuster, who pass or break, such as orchestrating super digital slow motion (way Sherlock Holmes by Guy Ritchie) on big punches, or to make the public disappear at the height of the final duel to leave, around the combatants, only the darkness. Jordan took his job very seriously, and it feels: Creed III is surely the Creed The most serious, the most intense, the most applied, but we would almost hesitate to consider it as a Rocky. The dynasty is ensured, but at what price?

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