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Moren on 08 May 2016

Hmh.
Honestly, I am a certainly a DC person, but Civil War blew me away.
I don't know if the best, but top 3 for sure. Absolutely fantastic movie. Thrilling from beginning to end. RDJ was amazing.



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thatguymarco on 08 May 2016

I honestly think that Iron Man, The Winter Soldier, and Guardians of the Galaxy all crush this movie to the ground. It was a decent 7, but nothing too special, also, they should've just be honest and call it Avengers 3.



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JWeinCom on 08 May 2016
Fei-Hung said:
Angelus said:

I saw it last night and was honestly crushingly disappointed. I can see why the general audience would enjoy it, but for me, knowing the actual Civil War storyline this was quite sad.

The whole movie is a damn jokefest, with only brief moments of seriousness sprinkled in.

The central conflict builds around Bucky, which is stupid, because he's simply not significant enough to have earth's heroes go to war over him.

Captain America's team is honestly vastly outmatched, but are made OP because hey it's a Cap movie, so he needs to look good. The only true threat on his team, Scarlett Witch, is for some reason left alone during the entire airport fight so she can assist every single member of his team without interference. Vision probably should be fighting her, but instead he's off screen being useless. At this point I'm pretty sure his character was created solely to die in Infinity War, since Marvel refuses to kill anyone of any real import.

Captain America comes across as a huge fucking asshole in this entire movie. He considers himself above the United Nations, is willing to beat on half his friends and make the other half outlaws to free Bucky (despite the fact that he himself knows he's a danger to others), and worst of all knows a little something major spoilery I won't mention that is absolutely unforgivable to not tell your friend. He's just a selfish, arrogant douche in pretty much the whole movie.

The villain, which they didn't even need to have, because the whole point of the Civil War story is two opposing ideologies between heroes, is once again weak, pointless, and cliche. Plus his "plan" relies entirely on random luck.



I have to say, as a whole I'm getting fed up with Marvel's movies now. They just treat everything like a giant joke. These are supposed to be their big guns, with real stakes on the line, and yet a single episode of their "Street level" heroes in their Netflix shows feels like it has 100x more important shit going on. I mean it's perfectly fine, great even, to have those properties like Guardians of the Galaxy, Spiderman, and Antman where things are more light-hearted and the overall tone is pretty funny. It makes sense for those characters. But you can't just throw a movie like Civil War on screen and have everyone aside from Black Panther crack one liners every two minutes and act like it's all just a big game to everyone. It's just stupid.

 

And that's the very reason I won't be watching it. The civil war comics arch was one of the best story arcs in comics and it's been destroyed in the film. It's put me off the marvel universe all together. 

 

Looks like my comic book adaptation fix will now come from Netflix, the Flash and Dredd (if it gets a sequel or series). 

Civil War was one of the best story arc in comics :-/?

Even if it was good (it's not) there was no realistic way you could expect them to put it on screen.  We're talking about something that spanned 100 or so comics and had like 50 heroes.  Not gonna happen in a movie.  It's just a movie inspired by that storyline, and one that improves on it.



MoistBatman on 08 May 2016

I sat down while writing a review for the movie and i contemplated this as well. The title is definitely between Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy as far as i'm concerned.
After much debate however, i decided to just make them "Co-holders" of the title until i am able to find time to watch Civil War again.

Despite a few imperfects, i can't help but give this move a perfect score...i had so much fun with it and it definitely gripped me. I even teared up a few times during the torn bromance of Cap and Iron Man.

Such a great movie.



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hunter_alien on 08 May 2016
foodfather said:
Just a many negatives as positives and you still give a 9.

hope you don't have an imdb profile/ or a certified RT reviewer.

Movie looks awful. Its clearly just paid for hype which explains the 98% the ''critics'' aka fanboys have given it on RT.

Thank you. This is an underrated opinion, but most Marvel mopvies are like that. It seems that people tend to view them with the critical eye of a 6 year old. As movies there are usually nothing more then overbudgeted CGI crapfests, and I doubt that this one will be any better. Was fooled several times by them, so I am not going to pay for it. Waiting for ther pirated version to tear thisn one a new one... or maybe not... maybe it will surprise me.

That would be a first.



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hunter_alien on 08 May 2016
Aerys said:

Oh and, so clever to trick all the fans by making them think there is a civil war whereas this movie is only Captain America : Winter Soldier Part 2. ( who got the worst idea in the world to make 2 movies all about one of the most boring character in the movies ?)

They really take their fans for fools.

How can you blame them, when they smash box office records one their backs?



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binary solo on 08 May 2016

Lots of good, lots of not so good. Definitely not the best MCU movie ever and also not as good as the Bale Batman series. 6.5/10 from me.

It is obvious why this is not an Avengers movie. But really I think putting the whole Avengers break up into a movie that is essentially a fugitive movie was a bad move. There should have been something else that caused a major rift.



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Areym on 08 May 2016

Agreed, I loved the movie, not only is it the best Marvel movie to date, but it's definitely a top 5 favorite movies of all time for me. Just about everything worked, I didn't mind bucky at all, he's a good tragic character. Agree that both wanda and vision were somewhat ignored, are they too strong compared to the other heroes? I wonder if that's the current issue.



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Aerys on 08 May 2016
hunter_alien said:
Aerys said:

Oh and, so clever to trick all the fans by making them think there is a civil war whereas this movie is only Captain America : Winter Soldier Part 2. ( who got the worst idea in the world to make 2 movies all about one of the most boring character in the movies ?)

They really take their fans for fools.

How can you blame them, when they smash box office records one their backs?

I cant blame them, i would do the same, why would you put a hard work to make a great movie with a great realisation when you can just make a pop corn movie and get much more money ? From a business pov, it makes sense.

 

But if you really love your job, you would also use this money to make real movies



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Mirson on 08 May 2016

The airport scene and the final battle were pretty awesome. I really liked the intensity of the final bout. It was a great movie, but I found Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy a tad better.