The highly anticipated third installment of Marvel Studios’ Captain
America franchise is finally and ready to hit the summer box office. <Captain America: Civil War> is another wham, bam movie that has Steve
Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers and it seems the captain is no longer alone! Yes folks, the captian needs
help now to fight the bad guys in the continued efforts to safeguard humanity,
but after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage,
political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a
governing body to oversee and direct the team.
Without giving away too much of the story, this new status
quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps – one led by Steve Rogers
and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without
government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising
decision to support government oversight and accountability. Sounds
exciting, but leads to a lot of infighting and you begin to wonder where the
real baddies are. Hence, which side are you on?
All your Marvel favourites are back, from Steve Roger, the Captain America to
Tony Stark/Iron Man; Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow; Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier;
Sam Wilson/Falcon; Colonel James
Rhodes/War Machine; Clint Barton/Hawkeye and Wanda Maximoff/ Scarlet Witch. The
film also includes an outstanding supporting cast, including Paul Bettany as
Vision; Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man; Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black
Panther; Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter; Daniel Brühl as Zemo; Frank
Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones; Tom Holland as Spider Man; William Hurt as General Ross and Martin
Freeman as Everett Ross.
The casts couldn’t get any bigger than this and there is non-stop
action aplenty for everyone to enjoy. The question “is it as good as the last
two” really boils down to your own personal expectations and the storyline wasn’t
totally convinced. One moment when you felt hoodwinked into thinking the baddie
was going to unleash all kinds of terror, but in actual fact it is a war,
indeed the civil war of psychology. There are some fun moments to drag onto
this long film with intend convoluted storyline and giving you a bum steer
before the final denouement.
Directed by Emmy® Award-winning directors Anthony and Joe Russo from a
screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and at least there isn’t
any re-run of the previous installments, as they stated that they felt like
they needed to go in a radical direction if they were going to direct another
Captain America installment. It is a strong team that once again brings the characters to life with
a lot of self-deprecating humour and strong action sequences but some of the
action was too forced or drawn out. A “less is more” approach would have given
the film a tauter structure that would have created more impact. Yet, die hard
Marvel fans will still patronize and inject their contribution by creating
another box office bonanza for Marvel Studios.
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