The film is directed by the Russo brothers who also directed Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014). The film is both a sequel to Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
In the movie, tensions are rising. Governments and countries agree to regulate the Avengers after several innocent civilians lost their lives when the superheroes fight in battles. People are frightened. They want to know if the superheroes are on their side and that they won’t go rogue. That’s why the United Nations want the Avengers to sign a legislation called the “Sokovia Accords” which will make the Avengers a government property. It means that whenever there’s a need for the superheroes to fight, the United Nations should approve it first. Some superheroes, like Tony Stark ca see the logic behind this. But other superheroes, most especially Captain America, feel that agreeing to the regulations meant that they will have to give up all autonomy to the government and that they run the risk of being used by corrupt forces and might even be used as weapons the government approved.
But the Cap has more personal reasons to reject the legislation. Bucky Barnes, a.k.a., the Winter Soldier is a cybernetically enhanced super solider just like Captain America. He and Cap were best friends during their childhood and during their time in the Second World War Bucky was frozen and revived in 1991. He then was brainwashed by the evil organization HYDRA to act as a weapon to kill. He is conditioned to respond violently to a set of specific code words.
Somewhat a tragic figure, Bucky hides away from people. Captain America believes that the real Bucky can be saved. This dilemma really drives the film forward and is also the reason why the Captain is motivated to rebel against the world’s government and ideology of some of his Avenger friends.
The Cap and Bucky’s friendship is the focus of the story. Their friendship is what matters most in the movie. If we weren’t shown how important their friendship was, we wouldn’t be able to understand the conflict very well. It’s through this friendship that the Cap had the dilemma to disagree with his Avenger friends and rebel against the government. The movie is all about the tension that was built throughout. It’s through this tension the civil war happened later.
I believe that through this development, the movie added more depth and layer to the conflict called the “civil war”. As the movie built tension, and as the characters developed, you get to see both sides of the dilemma. The movie does an excellent job on that and that’s what makes it a bit interesting too. There is a conflict in the movie, and it portrays two sides of the argument and it will make you feel stuck as the characters in the movie.
Each side is an antagonist and each side is a protagonist. You could root for any side and it will still be a reasonable decision.
The action was kind of cool too, although some shaky cam sequences were a bit annoying. The movie featured one of the best all-star royal rumble superhero throw down I have ever seen. It was really entertaining. You can really see each superhero personality shine as they throw punches at each other. It was exciting, entertaining, and funny. There was humor in the throw down and the best parts came from our boy from Queens.
The new Peter Parker/Spider-Man was kind of delightful to watch. Tom Holland (of disaster movie The Impossible) did an excellent job. I’m interested to see how Marvel studios would go with him because I’d like to see him more. Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther was really cool as well. For me these two superheroes shined the most in the film.
Captain America: Civil War was a good movie, not better than The Avengers, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, or Guardians of the Galaxy, but definitely not worse than Iron Man 2, or Thor: The Dark World.
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