This is the seventh Rocky movie. That’s a good run for a franchise. My assessment?

It’s slow.

I love Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station, Saturday Night Lights, The Wire) as Adonis Johnson Creed (at least partly because I admire him in the other roles), and it’s kind of fun to see Sylvester Stallone take another turn as Rocky Balboa (and exhibit the smarts to play second fiddle to give the franchise legs), but the movie drags.