Creed II is absent of both the topically political atmosphere of Rocky IV and the bravura action of Ryan Coogler’s Creed.
One of the Ryan Coogler film’s greatest traits is its reticence, its refusal to say 10 words when two will do, or to say one word when silence says it all.
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