Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Demorase — 11 May 2016

A much better movie than Ultron but it suffers from the same problems, namely trying to fit too much stuff into a single movie. You got a Winter Soldier sequel, an Ultron sequel, a backdoor pilot for Spider-man and Black Panther, a political and personal drama, and a setup for the next installments... How about just making one cohesive movie?

My biggest pet peeve with those movies is that they're constantly taking huge leaps of logic which are presented as making perfect sense when they really don't. In this movie we're supposed to buy that Captain America and Iron-man would go to "war" over a disagreement that could have been easily worked out. There's also tonal issues where the movie jumps from ultra serious to slapstick comedy and it doesn't really go together. Take for example the airport scene which is great, but doesn't really match the tone of the rest of the movie and to be honest THAT is the movie I want to see rather than this tired, sluggish, forced drama. I just don't care about the problems of fictional country Sokovia, I just want to see a fun hero movie.