![]() Nonetheless, “Captain America: Civil War” is an effective and efficient vision of the Avengers’ world. political or military control, the title of the movie could rather have been “Captain America: Heated Debate,” and its forebears-as well as its audience share-would have been closer to the work of Frederick Wiseman than that of Joss Whedon. Of course, were his motives different, and were the question merely one of U.S. The dubious turn of Secretary Ross is his desire to place the Avengers not under the rule of law but under international law, under the rule of accords signed by more than a hundred countries, many of whom can be presumed to wish the United States ill. ![]() the term that’s missing from the formula is the American government itself. They’re all under the authority of the U.S. The Navy SEALs aren’t autonomous neither is the C.I.A. Yet there’s a term missing from the formula on which “Captain America: Civil War” runs. That’s the basis of the movie’s eponymous civil war. When the King of Wakanda is killed there, his son (Chadwick Boseman) vows revenge against Winter Soldier in particular and the Avengers at large he takes on the identity of Black Panther and joins Iron Man’s faction. conference in Vienna, where the Sokovia Accords are to be ratified. Under that nefarious band’s mind control, he commits a terrorist attack at a U.N. Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), has been brainwashed and weaponized in Russia by the evil Hydra group. One more “meanwhile”: Captain America’s longtime friend Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. Captain America and his handful of autonomists, including Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Falcon (Anthony Mackie)-and, eventually, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Ant-Man (Paul Rudd)-are pursued by Iron Man, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Vision (Paul Bettany), and Spider-Man (Tom Holland), whom Iron Man drolly recruits to the cause. But Captain America (Chris Evans) doesn’t, and the Avengers split on this divide. ![]() He’s shaken by that confrontation, which is why, when presented with the Secretary of State’s demand, he agrees to it. Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), backstage after a speech and presentation at M.I.T., is confronted by the mother of one of the Avengers’ victims in Sokovia (played with fierce and quiet purpose by Alfre Woodard). command under the terms of the new “Sokovia Accords” or prepare to be pursued, captured, arrested, and tried by the American government. He calls the superheroes onto the carpet and gives them an ultimatum-submit to U.N. The United Nations moves to place the Avengers under its authority, and the American government-in the person of the Secretary of State, Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt)-agrees. The Avengers suddenly become the object of worldwide opprobrium that has been brewing since the catastrophes in New York and Sokovia (from Whedon’s two films, seen here in clips). While thwarting the theft of a tightly guarded biohazardous substance from the Institute for Infectious Diseases, in Lagos, Nigeria, they accidentally set several floors of a skyscraper on fire, resulting in fatalities. The premise involves the Avengers’ propensity for causing collateral damage. ![]() ![]() Though it depends on the two Avengers movies directed by Joss Whedon, it’s the movie that neither of them is and that both of them could and should have been-a movie of high-relief clarity that brings the characteristics of each figure to the fore and puts them into motion across sharply drawn lines of conflict, relying on a surprising minimum of bombast and sentiment. The film is not the story of one character but a group drama of the Avengers at large. “Captain America: Civil War” is a bit of a misnomer. Photograph Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett What it isn’t is exhilarating or exciting. The filming in “Captain America: Civil War” is clever, brisk, and thoughtfully engaged. ![]()
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