I kew I shouldn't have believed the hype.
I was trying to like this for quite a while, I was trying pretty hard, I swear I was... But then that running with the motorbikes happened, and I couldn't keep fooling myself.
I would say this is a bad movie but that wouldn't be fair, or at least not accurate, because this is not even a movie, not in the true sense. This is just product. This is just image and sound to bring teenagers to the multiplex and get their pop corn & soda money in the most dishonest way. There's no story here, just the most basic thread so spectators have something to follow, sprinkled with a few "emotional" beats here and there for them to react to, to get "invested". But the people behind this have no story to tell, they just want to reboot the Rocky saga into some "modern" franchise, and maybe they succeeded at that, I don't know. Things happen and words are said (mostly LifetimeTV-level, self-help psychobabble to show us their supposed "inner conflict", some wound that needs to be healed), but not in any organic way, they don't really follow any build-up, they are no consequence of any previous events, they just happen when they are convenient to advance the plot as required.
At one point, there is an argument between Rocky and Adonis that comes completely out of nowhere and it's so contrived that it's ironic: Adonis gets mad at Rocky because he doesn't feel like family to him. Well, d'uh! Maybe that's because you are NOT family, and nothing in the movie so far has shown us any building relationship that could prove otherwise. We are given no real reason for these characters to come together and care for each other, other than some bullshit "legacy"; a legacy that only comes from this being a multi-movie saga, a legacy that only exists, and hardly, for the spectators, not for the characters.
The only true "legacy" here is of the money-grabbing kind.