Reviews

Captain America: Civil War is my favorite Captain America film and my favorite Marvel film that is not an Avengers movie.

Unlike Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice's awkward attempt to cram in multiple heroes before laying the groundwork in their own films, Captain America: Civil War came after we'd already had nearly a decade of getting to know these characters, and how they operated.

Within the first half hour of the film, the Avengers are shown footage from major events in past Marvel movies, but rather than enjoying a shot of the Hulk smashing a few aliens into a building, the heroes see pieces of that building crush a bystander filming the chaos from his phone.

I felt like it didn't really tie into the other marvel movies (apart from characters) and that the movie was made purely to see The Avengers fight against each other.

The action in this film is the best action in any of the Marvel films to date, and it's also probably the darkest and most emotionally compelling of the films, as you could argue that they're really isn't a happy ending.

After this film, I can only hope that Infinity Wars goes this route and gives each Avenger a worthy foe to fight and not a hoard of mindless foot soldiers, which is exactly what the previous two Avengers films did.

Captain America: Civil War, during its entirety, can be described as a load of information, but mostly all I learned is that Marvel prioritizes Team Stark versus Team Captain America over telling a compelling story.

Conversely, Captain America got something of a rocky start with wartime prequel The First Avenger, yet immediate follow-up The Winter Soldier marked a noticeable improvement and resulted in one of the most solid MCU films yet.