So, i saw the movie some days ago and now i would like to discuss my main problem with the movie.
Before i start, i want to say i really enjoyed it. I actually liked the action scenes and the way the plot/heroes were handled.
There are some problems no doubt, but all of them falls between acceptable or at least ignorable, given what the movie gets right.
[Spoilers from now on] There is one think though that really annoyed me and really brought my score down: the lack of consequence.
I mean, Civil War idea is about creating a real fracture inside the avengers, but by the end of the movie my sensation was that very little changed. Not saying someone needed to die, but we needed something more than Cap holding information about Tony's parents.
These are my main points:
- A dozen of powerful characters bring an airport down in their fight, but not one of them gets seriously hurt.
- Rhodes paralysis is dealt as a really trivial thing. He might as well have a flu.
- Rhodes should have died. I mean, come on, that fall...
- Bucky should have died. And i don't say that just because i was getting mad with him and Cap. By the end of the movie he is pretty much dead from a MCU point of view. Lets be honest, he will stay frozen forever and chances are he won't come back in the near future, so why not let Tony kill him and create a real issue between him and Cap?
- Cap should not appear rescuing everyone in the end. Heck, they could even use this whenever needed in the next movies, but the writers should have let those avengers locked until then. It would be another great way to put real weight in Tony/Steve decisions. Flint would lose part of his children childhood and maybe get in a problem with his wife since he vowed he would retire last movie. Wanda could go crazy with confinement. Natasha and Vision could be haunted by the guilt of helping locking their friends. Hell, an assault to the prision could be the trigger Thunderbolt Ross need.
Instead of that, Captain vaguely definied powers ex-machina.
What do you think?
