It seems the previous critics before me don\'t reflect the general and professional positivity and love \"Captain America: Civil War\" has been receiving so I\'ll make this review brief (and spoiler-free) so as to hold over until more professional (and most importantly more positive and fun-loving) critics can come along.
Was that really necessary? Look, I have no issue with you loving that movie and saying so, but could you avoid implying other reviewers are cynics who don\'t know how to have fun?—\' I did say plenty of positive things on this movie in my review.
also, the fact this movie is two halves is precisely a problem in my eyes: the second half makes the movie unable to focus on the first. A bit like for Batman vs Superman, only nowhere near as bad.
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AWESOME!!! (SPOILER-FREE)
It seems the previous critics before me don't reflect the general and professional positivity and love "Captain America: Civil War" has been receiving so I'll make this review brief (and spoiler-free) so as to hold over until more professional (and most importantly more positive and fun-loving) critics can come along.
It's a great blockbuster with smaller but more personal stakes (in contrast to typical collateral-damage-heavy set-pieces of most Superhero movies) that really allow characterization to shine, but still delivers on the levity and kickass action while impressively managing to balance/juggle every character and make both sides of the conflict (Steve Rogers vs Tony Stark) look equally sympathetically with valid points for both views making it ambiguous as to who to root for.
In many ways, the movie is two halves: One half is the sequel to Captain America: The Winter Soldier where Steve Rogers is trying to deal with a new world while salvaging what's left of his old one as the plot builds up to and then explodes into the other half which is essentially "Avengers 2.5" and truly earns the title Civil War. It's also FAR superior to the source material as all these characters have undergone Character Development in the dozen+ movies of the MCU so no there's no unnecessary-Character Derailment-for-the-sake-of-conflict here.
In an aversion of Trailers Always Spoil, what you see in the trailers is only a mere tiny fraction of what the movie has to offer. Easily one of the best of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and worth multiple watches.
5 out of 5 stars. Best movie of 2016
NOTE: "Minimum System Requirements" (Otherwise you'll be lost narrative-wise)