What’s so great about this film is that each side of this argument, about whether government supervision is a good thing or not, is entirely understandable and fleshed out as best as they can be so that it’s not just black-and-white. Rogers and a handful of Avengers disagree with these new regulations, while others – led by Tony Stark/Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr.) – are strongly in favour of being put in check, and as a series of international incidents lead to the resurgence of the Winter Soldier, a brainwashed assassin previously known as Steve’s closest friend Bucky Barnes ( Sebastian Stan), things soon escalate into an all-out confrontation between the former allies – all while a mysterious figure known as Zemo ( Daniel Brühl) operates covertly with his own agenda against the quarrelling Avengers. The plot, based very loosely on the popular comic storyline written by Mark Millar, sees Steve Rogers/Captain America ( Chris Evans) and his new team of Avengers – Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson), War Machine ( Don Cheadle), Vision ( Paul Bettany), Falcon ( Anthony Mackie) and Scarlet Witch ( Elizabeth Olsen) – being faced with a new government body designed to monitor and police all superhero activity, after an opening mission in Lagos, Nigeria unexpectedly ends in tragedy. Watch: Captain America: Civil War World Premiere red carpet interviews This could well be Marvel at its peak it will be fascinating to see if any forthcoming film in their current “Phase 3” line-up can rival CIVIL WAR in almost all areas, from script work to direction to action to scope, and so on. To say that CIVIL WAR puts BATMAN V SUPERMAN to shame by doing pretty much the same thing they did but on a much more successful level is a major understatement it takes the idea of superheroes being pitted against one another in a full-on battle to bigger and more mature heights, challenging the viewer more than any other Marvel movie to date with complex themes and arguments that are weighted just evenly enough for us to understand and sympathise with both sides, but never allowing the fun and excitement to be buried underneath all the diplomacy. Having now seen CIVIL WAR, the third in the Captain America standalone trilogy that started with THE FIRST AVENGER and continued with THE WINTER SOLDIER, we can firmly say that if anyone can do exactly what Marvel can do and still somehow make it work, it’s Marvel. Watch: Captain America: Civil War European Premiere red carpet interviews Put simply, BATMAN V SUPERMAN was undeniably DC’s attempt to do everything that Marvel has spent almost a decade building up towards in one single movie, and because of that it was an overall failure – not a complete disaster, but a failure nonetheless. We still stand by our opinion that, while it’s definitely not a very good movie, it has more things to enjoy about it than its predecessor MAN OF STEEL (namely Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and a few others), but even still it is an absolute mess of a film, trying to cram in so much material in order to set up future DC movies, take inspiration from other popular Batman and Superman stories, reinvent iconic characters to little satisfying effect (Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor-Joker hybrid in particular), AND be its own story that ultimately doesn’t add up. The reasons for this were to not only start making comparisons in favour of Marvel’s own major superhero team-up movie, but also to see just how DC was attempting to run their own enterprise of comic-book movies. BASICALLY…: Steve Rogers/Captain America (Evans) and Tony Stark/Iron Man (Downey Jr) find themselves at odds when proposed government regulations threaten to limit superhero activity…īefore watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, we sat down for a late-afternoon and mostly empty screening of BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE.
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