the film keeps pounding through the predictable set-up and storyline until finally, when you think it can fight no longer and will have to throw in the towel, it charges back with some scenes of originality, pathos and, in ever-so-swift jabs, excitement
Creed is as formulaic and sentimental as you'd expect any Rocky movie to be, but Jordan and Stallone (looser and more vulnerable than he's been in 30 years) give the film an undeniable, lump-in-the-throat poignancy
by Jordan Hoffman [The Guardian ]
