you can jus tell this movie completely n utterly imploded when they tried to develop a new storyline. the movie is plagued with pacing issues, the fight scenes were just so lacklusture, like there’s no sense of urgency to build the final fight scene up what so ever, n another thing a guy who comes out of prison after 18 years, with no real boxing pedigree somehow gets a shot at becoming a world champion..🤷🏻♂️, when in real life, that would never happen. the script leaves much to be desired, the entire film and plot felt so rushed, n under-utilised, the fighting choreography looks like it was done by a uni student, no emotion no heart, no hunger whatsoever. The dialogue to this movie felt so recycled, compared to the previous instalments, over all, you can jus tell the movie was so poorly directed, because there’s so many holes n gaps that they couldn’t fill, because every time you think “huh??” the movie was just skip to another scene. The over all proverbial nail in the coffin in this film was the fact that not once is syl mentioned at all, considering his legacy is built on this movie. but this is what you get when you don’t cast a hollywood icon and legend, you get a complete and utter dogs breakfast like this movie. if you don’t wanna be left thinking “what just happened?”, then do NOT purchase this film. 1/10 for me im done with the creed movies, unless syl comes back, but after seeing this i don’t even think he’d want to either.