Captain america civil war 2 soilers movie#
The action scenes of the movie are great, from what little I could tell by squinting through the ever-annoying shaky-cam. Emotional stakes are important to get audiences invested in the fights, and most of the fights in the movie do have them. This particular character could have had a very good arc, given this person’s previous experiences in the earlier MCU movies. While Bucky’s story is still interesting, I really wanted the film to explore the viewpoint of that other central character more. But that character gets pushed to the background and we focus on Bucky. Before the appearance of Bucky, there is one character that clearly lies at the very center of the Civil War conflict (perhaps akin to how Spider-Man is the central character in the Civil War of the comics). The bipolar nature of the story is even reflected by the fact that the plot has two inciting incidents: One event that initiates the Civil War storyline, followed by another, separate incident that brings Bucky into the story. A story like this should have equally distributed points of view of its key characters, not just the Captain.
On the other, we have a Civil War story about how the Avengers get torn apart. One one hand, we have a story about Cap and his 1940s idealism about friendship and loyalty willing to go against the rest of the Avengers to protect Bucky. Therein lies one of my main issues with this otherwise very enjoyable movie – it flips back and forth between being a movie about Captain America, versus a story about the Avengers as a team.
The initial ideological debate around the Sokovia Accords fades into the background amidst the more urgent, time-critical events. So a huge fraction of this film’s story is the usual action-thriller ‘spy goes rogue to clear her/his name’ storyline, though it is a well-executed and entertaining one. Since Bucky is Cap’s best friend, the two of them goes rogue. However, perhaps because they wanted to make this a ‘Captain America’ movie, Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier gets thrown into the mix, where he gets framed for yet another terrible catastrophe and becomes a fugitive. This set-up makes it an Avengers movie at its core. The different superheroes have differing opinions over this, and thus the Avengers are polarised and the Civil War starts. This is a general plot thread that has some similarities with the comics. During a fight between the heroes and the villains, innocent civilians get killed in the crossfire, which causes Tony Stark, aka Iron Man to suggest that the Avengers sign the Sokovia Accords, a vaguely-defined treaty which ostensibly serves as a regulating body to control the actions of the Avengers. The movie opens with the Avengers crew that was established at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron on a routine mission. That it is a ‘Captain America’ movie mostly holds true in the emotional sense, and the fact that the Captain is mostly the POV character throughout the story. Despite the filmmaker’s insistence that this is very much a ‘sequel to the Winter Soldier’, the plot is very much about the Avengers. It turns out that ‘Avengers 2.5’ is a pretty apt description for the plot, and the place of this film in relation to the rest of the MCU.
When the cast list for Captain America: Civil War was revealed, people have been calling this move ‘Avengers 2.5’, mostly because it involves so many characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
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