Oh you knew I had to see this. I almost wish I hadn't because my theater experience was so annoying. I would almost rather have waited to see it at home where I could have watched it without a couple hundred distractions. I will get to those. First, the movie.The world has grown fed up with the massive destruction wrought whenever superpowered individuals work out their differences. The new Secretary of State (William Hurt) presents the Avengers with the Sokovia Accords, a mandate that allows their future actions to be managed by a United Nations council. Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is all too eager to sign, feeling the need to restore some order and balance out their absurd levels of power. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is opposed, still leery about that whole Hydra-inside-of-SHIELD event to allow his future to be led by committee. Then the Accord signing is bombed and the prime suspect is the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), prince of Wakanda, swears vengeance against Bucky for the death of his father and Tony has orders to shoot on sight. Steve is willing to go to the mat against his own team to save his friend, especially once he learns that a mysterious figure named Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) has gone to great lengths to locate the other participants in the Winter Soldier program. Team Iron Man and Team Captain America pull together as many recruits as they can in a battle of conflicting loyalties and ideologies.
Whew. There was a lot going on in this film! And yet it's handled so deftly that none of it feels like a boatload of exposition being dumped on you. There are a ton of characters to keep track of, existing and new, and I thought the writers did a very good job of managing to keep Cap and Stark in the middle while still giving everyone a chance to show who they are. The best moments for me weren't the big action pieces, they were the small interactions between characters which sometimes happened in the middle of the big action pieces. Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky in the car and Sam and Bucky vs Spider-Man (Tom Holland) are my two new favorite things.
Now we move into my least favorite things: 1) People who ask questions during a movie. 2) People who ask questions because they've clearly never seen a single Marvel movie before deciding to jump in at movie number 11. 3) People who get up and leave from the middle of the row during fight scenes. Pee before you get to the theater or make sure you have an aisle seat. 4) People who bring small children. 5) People who get up from the middle of the row during fight scenes to take their small children to the bathroom. AISLE SEATS! 6) People who allow their small children to run rampant up and down the row, climbing over the seats, slamming arm rests up and down during the post-credit sequences. My hatred for all of you knows no bounds.
People. I implore, beg, beseech, and adjure you. Do not do these things. By all means, go see Civil War. Just don't be an asshole about it.
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