Marvel’s latest all-star production gets two thumbs up from critics.
Ahead of the worldwide release of Marvel’s all-new superhero film, Captain America: Civil War, the film and the franchise’s top paid star, Robert Downey Jr, 51, who essays the role of billionaire Tony Stark/Iron Man alongside his onscreen friend-turned-foe Captain America turned a lot of heads at the London premiere of the film.
Downey showed up in flared trousers at the UK premiere where he was joined by cast members Samuel. L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Emily VanCamp, Paul Bettany, and Daniel Bruhl as they posed for pictures with fans.
More to the point are the first reviews of the film, several of which suggest that the film is quite entertaining and is a step up from The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In a review for Entertainment Weekly (EW), Chris Nashwaty writes: “Despite its stars-and-stripes title, Marvel’s latest billion-dollar-blockbuster-to-be, Captain America: Civil War, is essentially a third Avengers movie – it’s also the best one yet. With a couple of exceptions, the gang’s all here (plus a few new faces). And the hook this time around is that the tension isn’t just verbal anymore. They beat the crap out of each other, too. It’s like a family reunion gone violent.”
GQ magazine’s Helen O Hara rightly notes that the film’s strength is how it differs from other superhero vs. superhero tales seen on the big screen in recent history (think Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice).
“The key difference between this and certain other superhero clashes in recent memory is that the conflict here flows seamlessly from the characters, and the violence is at least as much emotional as physical,” writes Hara and adds: “this film keeps moving, never losing its sense of purpose. There, it’s like Cap himself. When you know you’re on the right track, you don’t swerve for anyone.”
Clarisse Loughrey echoes a similar sentiment and notes in her review that the film is one that has learned from past mistakes seen in the Marvel universe.
“Imperfections, however, don’t seem quite as weighty in the face of all that Civil War actually achieves,” writes Loughrey for The Independent and continues: “creating a blockbuster so much more epic in its increased intimacy, becoming more spectacular by reducing its need for spectacle. If Captain America: Civil War is the true herald of Marvel’s phase 3 and its carefully planned future; maybe it doesn’t actually feel so bad that we’ll be getting these movies every year until the Earth collapses in on itself.”
Courtesy: Instep (The News International)
