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

All these 9 and 10 reviews are ridiculous. Anyone that appreciates good, QUALITY movie making will abhor this film.

The plot wasn't bad....brought up some serious issues by giving both sides. The direction was HORRIBLE!!!! Typical of the last two Superman and Bourne movies..... you have an amateur director who thinks that handheld cameras jumping around fighting and chase sequences in close-ups is exciting. Add to that, extremely choppy editing, and you have a hodgepodge of odd spliced action that you can't make heads or tails out of it. The action scenes had a lot of speeded up CGI fast movements that were annoyingly unrealistic.

Most young viewers are probably used to this type of directing and don't know how great action pictures should be shot. I desperately wanted the camera to pull back and let me appreciate how the action was unfolding. I literally could not make heads or tails out of most of a car chase in a tunnel because of this crappy directing style and editing.

This was never going to be a super great movie; but it could have been a much better action film than it was.