Captain America: Civil War (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Anthony & Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
	Actors: Chris Evans (Fantastic Four 1-2), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 1-3), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 12.10.2016, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: When Captain America's old friend Bucky re-surfaces in the middle of the signature of a law placing the Avengers under UN authority, it creates an unsolvable conflict between the super-heroes.
Review: It took me a while to get up-to-date with the Marvel Cinematic Universe by finally watching this Civil War that takes place before the last three episodes of the third season of the TV-series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that I watched already. It is different from the two previous movies in the series because it doesn't revolve exclusively around the super-soldier, but includes many other heroes from the same Universe, usually only seen in cross-overs like Avengers: Age of Ultron. And it is a special movie in that Universe because it goes beyond that and introduces even more characters like (spoilers, highlight to read) Spider-Man, played by yet another actor with yet another story including a young Aunt May that I don't appreciate, and oh surprise the laconic Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, plus some others that I won't reveal. Plenty of known actors are also visible throughout the movie even if sometimes with a minor role: the German Daniel Brühl, Martin Freeman from The Hobbit or William Hurt. Just looking at those guys and digesting their place in the Universe will keep you entertained for a while. We also see a lot of Tony Stark (Iron-Man) usually limited to his own movies but currently without any new one in the pipeline. A bit like the TV-series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., this movie is thus acting like a glue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, linking bits and pieces together. So at this point we really cannot talk anymore about the cinematographic quality of this movie alone (although each one in the Universe has its specifics), but about its place in the Universe. And I found it had a pretty good place. OK the story that the "enhanced humans" have to register to the government which leads to a civil war has been copied in the Comics world for decades, and now in the world of the cinema adaptations as well: see Watchmen, Batman v Superman or any of the X-men movies. But apart from this detail, I found the story interesting (not so much the motivation of the villain) and was mouth-open for the half hour of battle at the center of the movie. Again, not a masterpiece of Cinema, but one has to appreciate what Marvel is currently building.
Rating: 6 /10