Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War is Iron Man’s finest hour
The Marvel Universe is giving us one entertainer after another. Captain America: Civil War brings together all the big names from the Marvel Universe back on screen. A mission gone wrong ends up with civilian causalities in a little known country, Sokovia. The Avengers take the full brunt of what happens next, with the authorities stepping in to bring them under the United Nations. Iron Man agrees but Captain America doesn’t, causing a rift right through the middle of the superhero team.
The Marvel Universe is giving us one entertainer after another. Captain America: Civil War brings together all the big names from the Marvel Universe back on screen.
A mission gone wrong ends up with civilian causalities in a little known country, Sokovia. The Avengers take the full brunt of what happens next, with the authorities stepping in to bring them under the United Nations. Iron Man agrees but Captain America doesn’t, causing a rift right through the middle of the superhero team.
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But all is not as easy as it looks. This is not a friendly squabble which will end in a self-aware, funny conversation with the camera panning out as an end sequence. With skeletons tumbling out of the closet from both sides, the background for a grim, final battle is set.
Captain America: Civil War is a fan’s dream come true. This is one of the most layered scripts that we’ve seen in a comic book film. The good news is that the movie doesn’t lose itself in all the ‘Who’ll win?’ hype and instead, offers a cracker of an entertainer.
Marvel wants the audience’s patience to set up one of their universe’s most important sequences and that’s probably why the first half takes a few minutes to gear up. But once the action starts, it really begins.
Special points to the astounding action sequences shot in good light, sometimes even broad daylight. The audience doesn’t have to squint and see who’s beating who, something that takes off the sheen out of an action sequence. We’d love it if upcoming action films learn from this one.
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Marvel once again gives a knock-out answer to the age old question: With so many characters, will it be able to do justice to them all, or even one? Yes, yes, and yes.
Under all the fight sequences and smart dialogues, the film makes a point with this one. Friends being friends, forever. Friends are always together, even in their darkest moments and brightest times... even if sometimes they end on opposite sides.
It’s Tom Holland and Paul Rudd who add that much needed humour as Spider-Man and Ant-Man respectively. The newest additions to the bandwagon have a blast playing two characters who are punching above their grade. Chris Evans as Captain America is convenient as the rebel with a cause. Surprisingly, there’s no Scarlett Johansson’s (Black Widow) poker-face, deep moment this time around.
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But let’s not forget the man who gives the film the much needed soul – Robert Downey Jr. This man has played the iconic character for so many years now that it seems the character has somehow welded onto the person.
Downey Jr switches from tragic hero to a superhero with a finesse that’s rarely seen today. The emotions he portrays on screen are some of the sequences that will forever be etched in the mindset of an entire generation.
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Watch this one, definitely.
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