Siss0rmetimbers

This is a criminally underrated movie. It has a nice, motivational story if a bit of a silly setup, but other than that is very relatable. It is a movie about picking yourself up and revitalizing an otherwise stagnant life with the hope of giving something back to the world. Its not perfect but there's some decent humor, a relatively believable setup that shows with a work hard attitude you can accomplish anything, and pretty fantastic fight scenes, especially the penultimate showdown. This movie isn't supposed to be Pulp Fiction, Rocky, or Anchorman. Its a fighting movie with a bit of humor mixed in and a story about turning your life around. Don't think about it too much, its not supposed to be deep, and not everything that's good has to be.

I have to come back here because of Creed 3. This movie is pretty damn solid. Its a real Rocky movie and it follows with the visuals and themes of those movies. That hard work and determination can overcome an insurmountable obstacle and that when you get knocked down, it doesn't matter. What matters is you get up and keep fighting. The fights are epic, new aspects of the boxing world and real boxing personalities and real life stories are brought in. Creed 3 is not a Rocky movie. Creed 3 takes place in a fantasy world that doesn't have much to say and certainly doesn't have a believable plot line and the characters are non-sensical, almost looney-tune like. This movie doesn't have the most unique plot but it touches on the generational boxing rivalries we're starting to see today like Eubank Jr. vs Conor Benn. It may not be a groundbreaking story but guess what, boxing has been around for a long time and history tends to repeat itself, its a boxing movie. Not a Scorsese film. And in the end the fight scenes are brutally awesome and the tone is inspirational. Creed 3 forgets that. The tone of that film is dark despite the stakes feeling kind of stupid. And again, the plotline is absolutely baffling. I'll take predictable seeing as that's what I want out of a Rocky film over baffling and stupid but new.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I do not understand the hype for this movie. I made it about 20 minutes in and the visuals make my eyes want to puke. It reminds me of Team America World Police, but takes itself seriously and has a quarter of the frames per second. The child is annoying like all children in movies and his voice is utterly grating. And to be honest, I really wasn't expecting the musical part, which I also hated. Didn't feel bad for the old man that waited 20 years for a tree to grow to make a toy out of it and was still sad, it was just stupid. Then Pinocchio started on his number and his annoying grating voice forced us to shut the computer because we couldn't stand it.