I saw the movie yesterday and it was entertaining enough, but overall it felt like this was not planned to be part of the MCU from a story perspective. It mostly fleshes out the established characters but hardly even touches on the overarching plot.
Maybe they were so surprised by the first movies success, that they decided to produce a sequel out of order that they had no plot for.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
