Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War

Rating 7 out of 10

I was not that excited about this movie from the start.  Like the earlier Batman v Superman movie I'm not crazy about superhero's fighting each other.  There are plenty of bad guys out there without them fighting themselves.  Civil War was getting great reviews so I gave it a shot.  I was entertained yet this is no where near as good as the two Avengers movies.

The plot of Civil War is two tier.  Captain America is being difficult on both lands.  The genius politicians at the United Nations has determined the Avengers have become to big for their britches.  They show pictures of poor kids that died in the alien attack on NYC and act like the Avengers were to blame.  Did they not remember the bad guys that were intending on eliminating all humans?  They want the Avengers to sit on their hands until the 171 country UN takes a vote on whether they should save the day.  Tony Stark (Ironman) is feeling bad because a woman showed him a picture of her 10 year old son that died on one of his battles so he starts to agree with he UN idea.  Captain America says not a chance.

When a bombing kills many politicians a picture show the person setting it off is none other than Captain America's childhood friend Bucky Barnes (the Winter Warrior). Everyone on the planet is now out for Bucky.  Shoot to kill ask no questions.  Captain defends his friend and realizes he was brain washed by a bad guy so he is not really to blame.

This movie is entertaining in parts.  It's fun seeing all the characters come together.  There is a new character, the Black Panther that is very good.  Ant-Man joins the fight as does the new kid playing Spiderman.  There is a big battle at the airport that is fun even though you realize after a couple minutes that they really can't hurt each other.  They do make a mess of some nice planes.  For me the biggest problem is the directors use of the shaky cam.  Many of the early fight scenes has the camera shaking back and forth, in and out.  I had to look away.  The movie is also a little long at 2.5 hours.

You will be entertained with this movie.  Just don't go in expecting a movie of the year.  I liked Deadpool much better.