Review: Captain America: Civil War

Conflict, Avenge, Family

Three words that define Captain America: Civil War

Conflict of idea regarding the Sokovia Accords

Captain America reasoning of freedom to choose & his concern of signing the

accords could mean them being controlled by a group of committees that have

uncertain agenda that in the future could put the world & Avengers at risk by

altering their mind & thus stripping them of the right that made them the

Avengers in the first place & that's saving people that needs saving, not just

the lives that the comittees deems worthy

While Iron Man's perspective was that the Avengers can still do their job &

would even argue they could do a better job under government's supervision,

this would help decrease the numbers of lives that would have been lost

everytime the Avengers try to save the world & they ended up got caught in the

crossfire as victims

Avenging your family

Baron Zemo the big bad of this movie has an agenda & that very agenda it's some

what similar to why Iron Man fights Captain America & Bucky in the climax fight

scene of the movie- to avenge their fallen family

For Baron, he lost his family during the event of Avengers Age Of Ultron

He blames the Avengers for the death of his family

Through discovering the encrypted files of Hydra that Black Widow released to

the public during the ending of Captain America: Winter Soldier, he discovers

the big secret that would turn the two leaders of the Avengers against each other

& thus Baron began his plan of sabotaging the relationship of the Avengers

Family, be that your blood family or the ones you choose

At the climax of the movie, Baron Zemo revealed the one big secret that was

kept from Iron Man by Captain America this whole time, the fact that

Iron Man himself, Tony Stark's parents was murdered

in cold blood by his then brain washed best friend Bucky Barnes

tying back to the Winter Soldier film where Arnim Zola revealed the truth

behind the death of Howard Stark & his wife to Captain America & Black Widow

thus starting off the ultimate battle for revenge, Baron Zemo got his wishes

through Tony Stark who is seeking revenge for his blood family while Captain 

America tries to save his friend who he also considered as family

These three elements blended in perfectly it's what makes this movie awesome

Tribute & logical changes to the movie

Some scenes from the movie was taken straight from the comics like the scene

where the mother accused Tony Stark for the death of her son, that was a nice

tribute to the comic while some changes made to the movie for example

the Stamford incident was changed to the Lagos incident & Scarlet Witch along

with Crossbone was the cause of the tragic bombing rather than the original New 

Warrior & Nitro was some what acceptable & logical as well as the

introduction of Black Panther & the reason behind why he joined the war & Team 

Iron Man was brilliant as well

Flaws

No movie is perfect & so is this one, once again the bad guy failed to grab any

attention...Crossbone was poorly used & now dead while Baron Zemo seems to be

more of a plot device than character

I swear everytime he's in the scene I tuned out, I just simply don't care about

him or the whole subplot about finding the rest of the Winter Soldiers 

I guess his motive for ploting the Avengers against each other kinda makes sense

But still, without him manipulating the Avengers into going war against each

other I felt the Sokovia Accords alone will already be enough for them to

fight among themselves so at least to me, he seems unnecessary

The Fanboys

On to Spider-Man, how do I feel about the long awaited intro of Spidey into the

MCU?

I LOVED IT! his intro is one of the many scenes that got me popped up from my

seat, yeah it's weird that he's living in a condo like apartment with his hot

Aunt May which is also weird to be saying that, it's still cool & actually

makes sense if you just imagine him swinging in & out from that condo

Him fanboying Tony Stark, wanting to impress Stark at almost every turn

It's so comic accurate it's bringing joy out of me

Speaking of fanboy, Spidey wasn't the only one fanboying around in this movie

How funny & irony that Ant Man was also doing the same with Captain America

The two most inexperienced hero are the ones providing comedy relieve

to this otherwise "dark" & serious tone of the movie

Ant Man's scene when he become Giant Man was to quote Spidey, spectacular

Although he moves rather slow but you can still feel his power & impact when

the tiny superhero suddenly became the biggest man alive during the airport scene

Airport Scene

Now about that airport scene, 15mints of pure IMAX goodness & gold

The little things they do to keep some element of surprise from the fans

Be that their intention or not was pure genius

I don't know if they either cut out Spidey from the trailer or simply edited

him into the final product, whoever does that deserve major props

It was during that fight scene that for me felt like the true introduction of

The most comic accurate Spider-Man EVER!

The kid just won't shut up yet still doing his job kicking ass against all the

others Avengers, his exchange of words with Cap was gold

You know at that scene that even if they're on opposite side, Spidey still won

over Cap's respect

It was also during that airport scene that we witnessed the tragedy that war

brings...the fall of War Machine, his near death experience really was a nice

way to stop the fight & for the rest of the Avengers be that Team Iron Man or

Team Captain America to think twice about if they really want to go to war

At least it's miles better than ending the fight with "Martha"。。。

Aftermath

Rhodey now finds himself recovering from a severe spine injury while Bucky is

back into his frozen state in Wakanda under the protection of Black Panther

while Tony is having second thoughts about the Sokovia Accords,

Captain America rescued the rest of Team Captain America (Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Falcon & Ant Man) & is now on the run from the government as fugitives

Meanwhile Spider-Man with help from Tony Stark is about to swing his way into

his own journey. Finally, is the Avengers no more? well rest assured

Because if Captain America's last dialogue in the film to Tony Stark was to be

any indication, he's always just a phone call away, so rest assured that the

next time Steve Rogers appears, he's bringing the rest of the Avengers with him

as well!

Final Thoughts

My final thoughts being, this film does a great job of tying up the previous
film while moving forward the plot & planning seeds for future films.

It certainly lived up to the hype even if in my humble opinion, I still like Winter Soldier more because of the major plot twist effect that film brings to the whole of MCU while Civil War don't get me wrong, did delivered as one of the best comic book movie ever made but for me just doesn't seems to cause as much impact as the previous film.& for that, this film gets

8/10

2 Points deduct for the poor use of Baron Zemo