A desperate attempt to reason with the other side.
Marvel isn’t resetting these characters at the end of every adventure what came before truly matters. They aren’t the decisions you would have expected them to make back when they were first introduced, but that’s part of the magic of the longform storytelling on display here - these characters have demonstrably changed over the course of all these movies.
What’s important is that the film builds its conflict, escalating smartly and allowing each character to make decisions that feel totally organic, especially after almost a decade of adventures. Meanwhile, a mysterious man named Zemo is hunting down Hydra agents, seeking information about a hit The Winter Soldier performed in 1991. But not all of The Avengers think this is a great idea, and a schism begins to grow. After the messes in New York, Washington DC, London and lately Sokovia it seems as if The Avengers are a wrecking crew, saving the world - but at what cost? 117 member states of the United Nations get together to pass the Sokovia Accords, a framework in which The Avengers will no longer be a private group but rather a UN directed task force. The Scarlet Witch is, in a way, responsible for the disaster.įor the world it’s the last straw. After an awesome action sequence showing these new Avengers as a lean, mean, co-operative fighting machine something goes terribly awry and an explosion tears a hole in a building, killing dozens. This time his goal is an Infectious Disease Lab, and he’s after a bioweapon. Picking up after the events of Age of Ultron, Civil War finds Captain America leading his new team of Avengers on a scrappy mission to stop villain Crossbones, who has been flagrantly knocking over police stations in broad daylight.
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They made a movie that is an action spectacle that takes the time to ponder the meaning of responsibility, they made a superhero movie that is about the subtle betrayal of differing ideologies and they made a summer popcorn movie that examines the meaning of loyalty, of honor and the true cost of revenge.Īlso they made a movie where Spider-Man fights Giant Man. It’s also great because of the combination of Joe and Anthony Russo, directors, and Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, screenwriters, who have put together a movie that just works, a movie whose epic plot has a stunning sweep, whose thematics are built on solid (and fertile) ground and whose tone is perfectly controlled from scene to scene, allowing the movie to contain some of the most joyous big screen spectacle that you’ll see this year but also feature some absolutely heartbreaking scenes that are emotionally harrowing. Civil War isn’t great despite being the third Captain America and thirteenth overall Marvel movie - it’s great because of those things. It’s the film that proves the shared universe concept isn’t just cool, and isn’t just a great marketing idea but that - when used right - it creates a kind of gripping, resonant longform storytelling that no one else has ever accomplished on this scale. And that greatness - which is dependant in part on the groundwork laid by 12 previous movies - is the final proof of the concept that Marvel Studios first tried out in Iron Man back in 2008. Captain America: Civil War isn’t just a great Marvel movie, it’s a great movie.
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