![]() Although the cliched handheld, whipsaw-crazy action still lacks beauty and personality (a problem throughout Marvel's filmography, which has an assembly line quality) it's clean and exact, it makes clever use of the various heroes' powers, it's more comedic than vicious ( Buster Keaton and Steven Spielberg are clear influences), and it leaves no doubt about the characters' angles and methods of attack, where they are in relation to one another, and what's at stake. The best setpiece in "Winter Soldier," Cap taking out a bunch of would-be assassins in an elevator, had a frenzied smallness that was much more exciting than watching helicarriers crash and monuments crumble it seems to have inspired the better action scenes here-not just a stairwell punch-fest that finds Bucky swinging from a torn-up stretch of railing like Tarzan on a vine, but in a bigger, louder, wilder clash between Avengers (including emergency ringers Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Black Panther) on an airport runway. Black Panther, aka T'Challa-subject of an upcoming Ryan Coogler solo movie-is defined by his righteous anger over an injustice perpetrated against his family and his nation, and that's exactly where the character needs to be for this film. Nor does this story require much more of Ant-Man ( Paul Rudd) but that he act starstruck by Tony and Cap and the gang and try too hard. There's not much this film needs to say about Peter Parker except that he's a lovable wise-ass spider-teen who lives with his Aunt May (51-year old Marisa Tomei, looking more like Aunt February) and has only been slinging web for six months. We know a lot about the established characters by now. I've seen reviews complaining that no character gets enough screen time, but to me the distribution felt just about right. Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, "Civil War" gets better as it goes along, both as an action movie and a sprawling ensemble. Reuniting the Cap creative team of directors Joe and Anthony Russo and Wit and pathos in with the world-building and dramatic housekeeping. Seriously, and mixes sequences of wonder, visual This is a satisfying film that takes its characters but not itself It turns out that the real problem is that theseĬharacters don't talk to each other when they should. To spring from real and deep philosophical differences. And, as in the inferior yet thematically similar " Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," the hero-versus-hero slugfest only seems Plan, because if it didn't there would be no movie. ![]() Moment at the end luckily for them, each step goes according to ![]() It'll set off a chain reaction that'll eventually lead to a very specific Characters do things to other characters because they know There's a fair bit of " The Dark Knight" logic, or "logic," to the (Several characters confess that they act from compulsion and then find ways to rationalize it.) Like "Avengers: The Age of Ultron," " Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and " Iron Man 3," "Civil War" is simultaneously about the ramifications of US intervention in a post-9/11 world the responsibility of private military contractors (which is basically what the Avengers are here) to defer to their government and the United Nations the question of whether civilian casualties negate the righteousness of a noble mission the allure and price of vengeance and individuals' ongoing, never-finished struggles to understand how their pasts drive their present-tense actions. Ones, including Black Panther ( Chadwick Boseman) and Spider-Man ( Tom Holland), all running, flying, stomping and blasting through a long, lumpy story inspired by theĢ006 Civil War graphic novel arc. There are more than a dozen major characters and another dozen minor
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