![]() ![]() We received the Captain America: Civil War package that included the 3D and 2D discs, and checked out both, and the results are good, all the more so on the 2D disc. I don't know if that actually happens, but one could easily look back at Civil War and see it as a Empire Strikes Back for our times, where our preconceived notions about many of these superheroes were, and where they go, made the storytelling choices for them far bolder than anyone could have anticipated. ![]() Civil War retained what made the previous movies fun while leading the viewer into the darker woods of interpersonal battles that the possibilities in how these battles are fought quite possibly is the most promising thing of all.Īs one who really liked the first Cap film and liked the second much less, for my money Civil War is closer to the first one for me in terms of appeal, and as far as the MCU goes, should serve as a significant change in motivation for many characters in it. The Russos keep things light when they have the chance, flirting between cheesy one liners (note: I would watch the hell out of a spinoff sitcom between the Winter Solder and Falcon) and more substantive fractures between figures. Additionally, the film also introduces new characters to the mix one I will omit here for the 8 of you (like me) who didn't know about it, the other being Black Panther, played well by Chadwick Boseman ( Get on Up), who based on his work alone should hopefully see an increased role in these films.Įven when it gets to the fight between all of these Marvel characters, sure, nobody is REALLY going to face an ultimate fate here, but the path that a good number of these characters are on amongst one another at times would seem irreconcilable. And the film gives a fair amount of time to those characters of varying empathy. But when you look at it further, there is a lot going on within Civil War where all this time is necessary the story is giving time to the already known MCU characters as they ruminate over the coming controls, and make their decisions accordingly. In fact, the characters make some kind of bold choices, and some of them have kind of bold repercussions associated to them.įurther to this point, I noticed the run time for this and at 147 minutes, this is a bit of a monster that feels a lot of that time. There is a tiny bit of that in Civil War, but not so much that it's predominant throughout the feature. What Winter Soldier did that perturbed me were a couple of things number one was a weird foothold on reality and then a clunky transition to the MCU in such a way where some characters could be on death's door, return, and everyone would just shrug their shoulders and chalk things up to advance medicine in S.H.I.E.L.D. Meanwhile, a Russian doctor with ties to HYDRA (Daniel Bruhl, Rush) attempts to try and unlock a secret in the Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes' (Sebastian Stan, The Martian) past that could cause a further splintering between Stark and Steve Rogers, a.k.a. ![]() At the heart of the conflict is two sides: one is Tony Stark's (Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man 2) side, who feels that this supervision is needed, the other is Captain America's (Evans), who feels that a supervising body will eventually lead to constriction of the Avengers' freedom. The Avengers find themselves at a crossroads when the Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt, The Host) informs them that the damage that cities have seen which they are involved with has become too much to bear, particularly without some form of supervision, and the United Nations is suggested to be the ones to do so. Chris Evans was an understated focus in the Avengers movies and in Civil War, we get to see something onscreen that we haven't seen done in a while, maybe ever taking a few charismatic protagonists who many have spent invested time and money in, and pitting them against one another as part of a different yet looming crisis.Ĭhristopher Markus and Stephen McFeely ( The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian), who have written the previous two Captain America movies, return for this one, which is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo ( Community), who directed the last movie. With all the love, perhaps rightfully so, that the other characters and movies that focus on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU), it seems like Captain America is modestly going around and doing a lot of the work in moving the storytelling arcs forward in these flicks.
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