Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Waleed A — 19 Apr 2018

Amazing movie. Entertaining to the max with a good story, great characters, fun comedy, and unbelievable action. my first time watching I was blown away, not just because of the action and comedy, but it just all felt so perfect and I didn't have any issues with the movie. it had a great story and good debates and conflicts. I think this is easily the best fun superhero popcorn flick, and my second favorite if you are taking the movie seriously (after the dark knight trilogy).

The action, omg. it had every kind that you want. chase scenes, gun fights, hand to hand combat, super powers, everything. it was so exciting and intense. creative and ridiculously well done. so many stunning scenes and moments. like how did they do that, or make it look that real.

It's really amazing that we live in an age where we can have a movie with all these different superheroes in it, and not only does it look real but it's also really good (7 viewings).

SPOILERS.

This movie has three of my all time favorite action sequences: the apartment escape/street running, the airport scene, and the final battle. all jaw-dropping.

And what a great completely unexpeted twist-ish reveal at the end with tony's parents. such a great moment, an "omg it's about to go down" moment.

I really liked how the movie went in directions that I wasn't expecting. After the big battle I thought they were going to make up and be friends again to team up against the other 5 Winter Soldiers. But the bad guy's plan was way better. Restarted the Civil War, and had the movie end with them still apart, setting up future movie conflicts and resolutions.

While I was watching it I was wondering who would be on which side, and the only ones I thought I knew were Iron Man and Captain America, but they ended up being on the opposite side of what I expected. But they both made perfect sense. Captain America went through the same stuff with Hydra and SHIELD. It makes sense that he doesn't trust bureaucrats and politicians to make decisions. And Iron Man's side makes sense given past movies and how he feels guilty and responsible for so much stuff. It may not have been addressed a lot in this movie but it has been in previous movies.

So many good characters, and I don't just mean awesome superheroes. I mean the actual characters, and their development and arcs.

I really liked everything about the introduction of Spider-Man including the actor. I am now super excited to see the new movie. And it was reaffirmed to me that Spider-Man is my favorite superhero because I was just so excited to see him, even over all these other awesome superheroes. would have been amazing if I didn't know he was in it. But I didn't know about anyone other than captain, Iron Man, Spider-Man. I was guessing it would have Falcon and War Machine, I didn't know it had everyone else, especially Black Panther and Ant-Man. Black panther is bad-ass and Ant-Man was hilarious.