By Rebecca Wagner, Senior Reporter
To face the challenges of the future you must fight those you left behind.
In “Creed III,” Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, is forced to face the challenges he thought he left behind.
In the beginning of “Creed III,” we see Creed at the height of his career.
When a childhood friend comes back into his life after 20 years, Creed realizes that he has many different ghosts in the closet of his past that have not been let go.
The biggest challenge in the movie is the moment in which a friend becomes a foe.
We later see this foe advance to the realm of not quite friend, but definitely not a foe.
The storyline of “Creed III” is enhanced by the visuals and soundtrack that the producers put together.
Usually in trilogy movies I feel that they get boring and keep repeating.
The difference that I think separates this movie trilogy and makes it good compared to others is these movies each have its own storyline.
The first Creed movie was about how Adonis was trying to find himself and to gain a name for himself.
The second Creed movie was about how the characters in the movies realize that family means more than success.
The third movie shows how when Creed faced his past he was able to move past his childhood trauma and forgive himself.
Each of these storylines creates a different vibe within the movies and grabs a hold of the viewer’s attention.
The soundtrack in this film is by far my favorite soundtrack that I have heard in a film this year.
The songs the producers picked out matched the different characters perfectly and played along with the different background songs in the movie.
They all followed the themes that were recurring in the film.
The main theme of “Creed III” is about the tension between a person’s past and present and the power that the past has to dominate the present.
There are many other underlining themes that are present within the film, like emotional abandonment and abuse.
The movie takes on darker themes, but there are also happier themes within the film like forgiveness and family.
Another difference this movie has in comparison to the first two of the series is that Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone, a former opponent of Creeds’ father and a mentor for Creed is not in the film.
The first two movies are based off the intertwined past of Creed and Balboa but in the third movie, Creed is forced to face his own demons.
This movie was a ten out of ten for me. I recommend it to anyone that has an interest in movies with the narrative about friends to foes to go and watch.