“Creed III” makes clear that Michael B. Jordan, in directing and starring, has serious matters—personal, professional, and societal—in mind. But the movie doesn’t allow him enough time to explore them.
Though the multiplexes are drowning in sequels, “Creed III” should have been split into two movies, yielding the third and fourth installments in the franchise. Many franchise films are needlessly long, but this one ought to have been longer. The new movie’s sense of undue brevity and haste is a result of its diminished connection to the “” cycle, of which the “Creed” series is a reboot.
Spoiler alert: bitter enmity erupts between the two men, fuelled by the difference in their life paths and by unresolved issues regarding the fateful night in 2002. To save his name, his business, his pride, and even his soul, Adonis—who is long retired from boxing—decides to challenge Dame in a big-time bout, and to endure the rigorous training that the return to the ring entails.
The crushing weight of the past, and the exposition of its dramatic import, crowds off the screen many of the salient details of Adonis’s current-day activities. His business gets dispatched with only a few quick scenes and superficial nods. Dame jokes with Bianca that Adonis is working like Don King, but the movie shows even less of the wide-ranging wiles of boxing management and negotiation than does the relatively superficial and manufactured “.
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