Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Matt G — 16 Nov 2017

Totally contrived and stupid plot just to make the good guys fight each other. This is something Marvel seems to be obsessed with.

Remember the Avengers fighting each other in the first Avengers movie? Hulk fought Thor. Black Widow fought Hawkeye. Thor and Iron Man fought until Captain America showed up and Thor brought the hammer down onto Cap's shield.

Remember Hulk vs Iron Man in the Hulkbuster armor in Age of Ultron? Remember Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver fighting the Avengers before joining the Avengers themselves?

Star Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot fight each other in Guardians of the Galaxy before they become friends.

Iron Man and War Machine fight in Iron Man 2.

Thor fights Hulk yet again in Thor: Ragnarok.

Daredevil fights Punisher in the Netflix Daredevil series. Jessica Jones fights Luke Cage in Jessica Jones. Iron Fist fights Luke Cage in the Defenders. And so on.

This movie continues Marvel's obsession with forcing the good guys to fight each other. Captain America, Iron Man, Bucky, Falcon, War Machine, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Vision, Scarlet Witch -- they all fight each other.

There are some lame, cringeworthy attempts at humor while the good guys fight each other, undermining the seriousness of the whole thing. The only casualty due to all this fighting is one of the black guys, War Machine. No one cared about him anyway and he doesn't even die. Robert Downey Jr. just phones it in these days because he knows no one who watches these comic book movies has a brain.