All Rocky & Creed Movies Ranked Ahead of Creed III
It’s incredible how well the movies have aged over the years. After nearly five decades, Rocky Balboa’s story inspires and entertains despite hundreds of knockoffs and parodies. The franchise is so popular we’re about to get the next chapter, , with Michael B. Jordan — though, sadly, no Sylvester Stallone — on March 3.
As such, we’re diving into the saga to determine which boxing epic is the best by ranking the best and movies.
felt like a fitting end to the Rocky Balboa story — how do you top Rocky single-handedly ending the Cold War? — but Stallone decided to take another crack at our slow-witted hero and gifted audiences … . Awkward silence.
You gotta hand it to Stallone. The man takes serious chances with his beloved characters and isn’t afraid to mix things up now and again. In this case, he decides to take Rocky back to his street-level roots, resulting in a well-intentioned but disappointing chapter that sees the iconic boxer — now poor and severely brain-damaged — taking on Tommy Gun, a former student-turned-psychopath.
Sounds compelling, right? Unfortunately, limps along without much juice. While the pic dutifully sets up the next batch of films (intentional or not), it lacks the human element that made the original a classic and dumps the commercial swagger that turned into one of the great pics of the 1980s. It’s undoubtedly a fascinating exercise and worth a watch. Still, at this point, it was clear that Rocky needed to retire.
After astounding success, a sequel was all but inevitable; credit to everyone involved for defying the odds and crafting a follow-up that was, at the very least, passable entertainment. However, this by-the-numbers entry feels like a cynical cash grab, even if it still
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