Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016) by Wayne K — 23 Mar 2018

Captain America: Civil Kerfuffle. It's pretty bizarre to have a film like this and put only a single character's name in the title, since so many of the Avengers team are in it. It's not so much a Captain America movie as it is Avengers Assemble 1.

5. But that isn't to say it wasn't enjoyable. It has the same kind of thoughtful discourse and questions on the responsibilities of superheroes in modern society that you'd expect from latter-day Marvel, and the characters are still engaging, likable and, most importantly, 3 dimensional.

The most notable problems lie once again in its close quarters action sequences. The camera still wobbles and moves too fast and the edits are still far too frequent for you to adequately gauge what is going on, to whom and for what reason.

The director needs to pull back and slow down and the editor needs to do likewise. It also suffers from blatant franchiseism, trying its best to squeeze in as much foreshadowing for Infinity War as it possibly can.

But despite all this I still really enjoyed it, even at 2 hours and 27 minutes. It never feels that long, is never boring and the action, when you can decipher it, is exciting and always has a reason to exist.

It's a worthy conclusion to a solid superhero trilogy.