Hello Everyone,
Spoiler Alert!!!!!
Time for another review and unlike the last time, its on a much better film. This film was everything Batman vs. Superman should have been. It was thrilling, funny and the writing was much more engaging and kept you entertained throughout the entire movie. The reason I mention the writing was because everything in the story that was said came back up near the end of the film in contrast to Batman vs. Superman where nothing came back into play and where nothing made sense. Captain America: Civil War was much better written, let's get started with the review.
So we will just start with the writing and the overall story of the film. What I really enjoyed about the story was that even though you had a superhero versus superhero in this case Captain America versus Iron Man and whom had two different viewpoints, neither viewpoint was wrong. Both Captain America and Iron Man are right in their own way. Iron Man is right when he states that The Avengers are out of control and needs to be handle. This makes sense because if you think about what they can do, its understandable that people would be afraid of them. And its true that they need someone to tell them when enough is enough. On the other hand Captain America is right when he says that the safest hands for that power are still their own. Because I don't know about you but I don't trust the government/military with the power they do have so there's no way I would trust them with more. Plus Captain America is a soldier from World War 2 so he has first hand knowledge and experience of what power can do to man especially when it is in the wrong hands. So yeah in his own way Captain America is also right. Another reason why the writing is so good is because even the bad guy in his twisted way was right especially in the twist ending when he kills the other winter soldiers. I mean if you saw what Bucky could do would you want more of him running around and ones that are even more brutal than Bucky. I didn't think so! And also the bad guy, his plan wasn't to kill the Avengers instead his plan was to get them to kill each other and it nearly works. Which is what they are trying not to do. Up until the end neither Tony Stark or Steve Rogers doesn't want to kill the other one. And even in the end Tony doesn't want to kill Steve, he wants to kill Bucky and Steve is just trying to be the middle man and stop them from killing each other. And in the end they both did see the other's view. It's just a shame we'll have to wait til the Avengers to see how they get past this. The writing is what made this film worked because it kept the audience interested throughout the entire movie.
Another part of the film that was enjoyable was that it had a good mix of action and humor. The whole airplane fight scene between the two teams was both kick ass and funny and it supported the two viewpoints and treated them both important equally. I love how they incorporated Spiderman and that Iron Man did not want him to get hurt. Ant Man was hilariously awesome and Black Panther was just awesome. I also liked that even though you had all these heroes, it still focused on Captain America since it still was a Captain America film. That's were Batman vs. Superman failed and Captain America succeeded thus making it a much better movie.
-Katiejayforever
P.S. Stand by for next review!
