I’ve seen it last night. Short version - it’s good. It’s not excellent, but it’s not bad, it’s just “good”.
Long version -
Good things :
- pacing is done correctly, the movie is fast when it needs to be fast and it’s slow when it needs to be slow.
This was actually one of my few problems with civil war.
- action - every action scene in the movie (at there’s a lot of them) is GREAT.
100% agreed
- effects - most of the time I had no clue what is real and what’s CG, which is a GOOD thing and a huge improvement to Age of Ultron.
I thought they were pretty well done except some shots during the airport scene.
- the whole movie is entertaining
- nice Star Wars homage / rip-off
One of my favorite parts of the airport scene 😃
Bad things :
- new characters are not developed properly, basically they’re not developed at all. I think they made a huge mistake that they didn’t do solo movies for Spiderman and Black Panther before this movie.
Interestingly enough this is where I disagree immensely. The sudden no-origin introduction of these two characters is thrilling and appreciated because as most people think origins are getting old but I understand this may be a problem for you and respect but most of the masses have shown to be anti-origin like myself when it comes to certain characters more so to Spider-Man.
- what the hell are exactly the powers of Scarlett Witch and Vision? Every single time they did something I was just staring at the screen confused. I know her powers were introduced with “weird” in Ultron but did Vision have these powers? Explain, movie !
I agree about Scarlett witch but just another small nitpick. Vision is still pretty mysterious but I feel Age of Ultron was sufficient and in Civil War he even talks about his varying control he has over his powers which was very insightful.
- Spiderman. Not sure how anybody can like him. I am a huge fan of the character and the Raimi movies, and I hated Spiderman in this movie. He was almost as annoying as Jar Jar Binks. You are watching something which should be an emotional battle between close friends and the tone gets suddenly interrupted by Spiderman acting nervous, clumsy, or throwing some funny one liners. For the first (and maybe second) time it was quite funny, but as he kept on continuing I was seriously like “Shut the f up!”
So here’s the deal. The emotionally powerful fight that they had for almost pure emotion was the end. The airport scene really gave you the fun light vibe of “I have to bring you in but I don’t wanna kill you”. It shows that some might be pulling punches. So when a certain part of the ending of the airport scene happen it hits you hard and ends the fight.
- Captain America was portrait as a complete asshole in this movie. I liked him in the previous movies, Chris Evans has portrayed the most charismatic superhero since Chris Reeves’s Superman, but in this movie he basically abandons all his friends, and his government to basically help a serial killer who used to be his friend decades ago. The real Captain America as developed in the previous movies would try to arrest him and trust the system. The new captain just fights his friends without any good reason. Even in the trailer Tony says with an confused voice “So was I …” when Cap says “He’s my friend”.
Interesting. I was Team Iron Man because I simply agree with him. Cap though is shown to have a character arc throughout his trilogy. He started out as a loyal super Soilder and as he experienced more things through Avengers, Winter Soilder and Ultron he came to distrust organizations and that he finally realizes what the job of being a superhero entails. I feel it enhances the film, not hurting it.
- Deaths - not wanting to spoil anything, so let’s just say I’m not satisfied with the deaths in this movie
Defintely agree here, they had a great opportunity to kill a certain character off and when they backed out I definetly felt like they made a mistake in doing so.
- the villain. Oh yes, there’s a villain in this movie. Why? I don’t know. He’s the most pointless villain I have ever seen in a movie (ANY movie, not just MCU movies), this is the first time when I think that cutting out the villain out of the movie would actually improve the movie.
I have the very rare opinion that I like the Villain. If he was made any bigger than it would diminish the true conflict which was the civil war between Heroes. So what did they do with the villain? They made him contribute to the civil war in a complex and impactful way motivated by very personal reasons.
Overall a good movie, but not the masterpiece most people call it.
I have minor nitpicks with the film really so everything else shines beatifully. I’d give the film an A-.