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Captain America: Civil War Review
Dec. 5th, 2018 08:44 pm**This is an old review I am cataloging and may not reflect my Current thoughts on the matter**
Having just finished the third Captain America film (which…really did feel like an Avengers film), I have a variety of thoughts on it.
I found the movie enjoyable, the action was of course very fun to watch, and it had a good, dark vibe to it. But I kind of feel like the structure of plot as whole kind of…failed. I didn’t really get why anyone chose the sides they did aside from Tony and Steve, I didn’t get why Clint randomly retired and then randomly came back, Vision didn’t really do anything, they pretty much dropped the whole “we gotta stop all this collateral damage” thing, and I was pretty confused as to what the villain’s plan even was? Like I know he was angry at Cap and Iron Man for all the accidental deaths, but his actual PLAN was lost on me. Maybe it’s just because my tablet has the weakest speakers ever so I could barely hear what everyone was saying, but all I got was “I’ll make them kill each other and then I’ll kill the other Winter Soldiers >:D”, which…isn’t much of a plan.
Also Black Widow seemed a little too…kind, supportive, and moral???? Like I don’t think she’s supposed to be a jerk or anything, but given her past and how it affected her personality, you think she would have been just a little colder, or maybe a little more rebellious? Or if she was all “I want to support my gov now to prove I changed” then she should have been more openly passionate about that? I still really liked her, but there were moments that just felt…too sentimental. Like she was the main person going around being all like “I’m so sorry, are you okay?” which just seemed weird to me. And then Wanda was on lock down the whole time just because??? Yeah having that guy blow up in the sky broke that building and probably killed some of the people in it, but if she hadn’t the guy, Cap, and everyone surrounding them would have exploded? It was a tense, last-second decision and she honestly did her best? It wasn’t a perfect solution by any means but I don’t think it was enough to lock her up at HQ. (Especially when they regularly, you know, let the Hulk run free….)
I do want to point out that the movie wasn’t without it’s up-sides. Spiderman was a lot of fun and very in-character I thought even if he didn’t have enough scenes, I kind of just really like Falcon and Rhody, and I really enjoyed Steve and Bucky’s interactions (although I kind of feel like Bucky didn’t get to do enough talking, but whatever). That’s why I still enjoyed it. But it definitely had its flaws, especially in regard to plot structure, and then kind of nothing was resolved at the end? Basically I think it could have been great if it had done things differently.
Having just finished the third Captain America film (which…really did feel like an Avengers film), I have a variety of thoughts on it.
I found the movie enjoyable, the action was of course very fun to watch, and it had a good, dark vibe to it. But I kind of feel like the structure of plot as whole kind of…failed. I didn’t really get why anyone chose the sides they did aside from Tony and Steve, I didn’t get why Clint randomly retired and then randomly came back, Vision didn’t really do anything, they pretty much dropped the whole “we gotta stop all this collateral damage” thing, and I was pretty confused as to what the villain’s plan even was? Like I know he was angry at Cap and Iron Man for all the accidental deaths, but his actual PLAN was lost on me. Maybe it’s just because my tablet has the weakest speakers ever so I could barely hear what everyone was saying, but all I got was “I’ll make them kill each other and then I’ll kill the other Winter Soldiers >:D”, which…isn’t much of a plan.
Also Black Widow seemed a little too…kind, supportive, and moral???? Like I don’t think she’s supposed to be a jerk or anything, but given her past and how it affected her personality, you think she would have been just a little colder, or maybe a little more rebellious? Or if she was all “I want to support my gov now to prove I changed” then she should have been more openly passionate about that? I still really liked her, but there were moments that just felt…too sentimental. Like she was the main person going around being all like “I’m so sorry, are you okay?” which just seemed weird to me. And then Wanda was on lock down the whole time just because??? Yeah having that guy blow up in the sky broke that building and probably killed some of the people in it, but if she hadn’t the guy, Cap, and everyone surrounding them would have exploded? It was a tense, last-second decision and she honestly did her best? It wasn’t a perfect solution by any means but I don’t think it was enough to lock her up at HQ. (Especially when they regularly, you know, let the Hulk run free….)
I do want to point out that the movie wasn’t without it’s up-sides. Spiderman was a lot of fun and very in-character I thought even if he didn’t have enough scenes, I kind of just really like Falcon and Rhody, and I really enjoyed Steve and Bucky’s interactions (although I kind of feel like Bucky didn’t get to do enough talking, but whatever). That’s why I still enjoyed it. But it definitely had its flaws, especially in regard to plot structure, and then kind of nothing was resolved at the end? Basically I think it could have been great if it had done things differently.
