Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Masterchief118 — 06 May 2016

Just amazing on every level. I haven't had a feeling like this walking out of a superhero movie since The Dark Knight, and I'd be inclined to say that it might be the best comic book movie ever since The Dark Knight.

The action. The airport scene is hands down the best action scene in any comic book movie ever. Not just this, but chase scene with Bucky and Black Panther was just awesome, and the final action scene is shocking, dark, and surprisingly violent for a Marvel movie. Pretty much the only thing you could criticize about the action in this movie is the shaky cam in the first few fights, but it wears off later on.

The characters. Spider-Man!! F**K YES! FINALLY.... A PERFECT DEPICTION OF HIM! Tobey was a crappy spider-man and a great Peter Parker, and Andrew Garfield was a great spider-man and a crappy Peter Parker, but Tom Holland knocks it out of the park for both! Chadwick Boseman also played an amazing Black Panther. And best of all, they both play completely essential roles in the movie! Not just shoehorned in at the end. The rest of the cast (Cap, IM, BW, etc., etc.) is as awesome as they've always been if not better. But forget about all that, because it's time to talk about who is possibly the most underrated villain EVER! There's pretty much been no above average villains in the MCU up to this point besides Loki and The Winter Soldier (If you would count him as a villain), but this guy honestly breaks the trend. Zemo's motivations made complete sense and he wasn't just an over the top ridiculous antagonist. And if you think about it, he actually caused the most damage to the Avengers out of any MCU villain...

Finally, the story. We all knew going into this movie that it wasn't going to be on nearly as big of a scale as the Civil War comic, but integrating the Civil War into a Cap movie like this is pretty genius. At it's core, this is a sequel to Winter Soldier. In that, Bucky Barnes is completely integral to the plot and the way they link his backstory to Iron Man is just phenomenal. The movie is two and a half hours long, and it absolutely doesn't feel like that, because it's so well paced and there's never that one moment where you aren't glued to the screen. Although admittedly the movie didn't take too many "risks", I understand why.

In the end, like I said before, in my humble opinion, this is the best Marvel movie to date and is also the best CBM ever since TDK. In fact, the way it leaves you at the end of the movie feels a lot like TDK. In my mind, this is the first chapter of the end of the line that the MCU has been leading up to. And that makes me simultaneously sad that we're approaching the end, but super happy that the end is oh so FANT4STIC! Oh yeah, f**k that movie.