Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Impure — 07 May 2016

The fights in this movie are not very believable. In the original Avengers the friendly fights were done in the forest so no one will get hurt and there's not much to destroy. In Civil War the characters are doing ungodly amounts of destruction to everything around them. All of this while the characters claim to 'still be friends' making it even more ridiculous. Hello, aren't we trying to make amends for the destruction we caused in the previous movies? And what is Cap's end game? Does he honestly believe he can go up against the entirety of the UN?

The pacing also needs a lot of work. It falls into the classic trap so many Marvel movies are falling into recently of going much too slow in the beginning and going incredibly fast at the end. I think it's much worse in Civil War and other global scope movies than say Ant-Man because we're constantly jumping back and forth between random locations with minimal context.

Also the story is weak. This is the problem with cliffhanger movies. They just don't have any obvious conflict in them. It's just one meandering story with no obvious end. There's just no build up or suspense. Just people fighting each other for the flimsiest of reasons.