The film feels very real world, the politics element and general vibe feels very serious.
My main interest in Cap's movies is the relationship with Bucky. Here' it feels like a fantastic continuation of what began in TFA. You feel their history, from 1943 to 2016. Evans and Stan both have great scenes together that really sell that history.
Downey is at his best as Tony here. He is given some really meaty scenes, in the Ross briefing he doesn't speak for the briefing at all, he sits in the background completely silent, which was so refreshing.
The scenes between he and Steve are fantastic and loaded with anger and tension.
The first time we see Tony in the film, he's giving a speech at MIT, and it's a digitally de-aged Tony, which looked fantastic to me, then modern Tony appears behind him. It was extremely cool to see, and also cool to finally see him on screen with John Slattery at the same time.
Spider-Man is great. Like really great. Holland looks and acts the part so well. The suit looks amazing on screen, the voice is great, I can't wait for his solo film and the HT figure.
There's a lot of cool additions to the universe like the Raft, and the scene in the trailer where Tony comes out of the bottom of the helicopter is a suiting up scene, and it starts where he presses a button with his finger, the seat reclines and the suit comes on. The siuit starts attaching itself on his finger people!
Ant-Man stole the show, good ol Paul Rudd got the best laughs from the audience.
I'm a little bored with Falcon, he's cool and all but there's a moment when after Rhodey falls into the ground and we don't know how badly he's injured, Tony just shoots him and shuts him up with a repulsor blast.
I really liked Zemo. I'm a huge fan of Daniel Bruhl anyway, and he plays him so well, so calculated and evil! When you find out why he's doing what he's doing, he has a great scene with Black Panther aand you feel sorry for him.
Black Panther was amazing too, Boseman nails him in the scenes he has. He's charming, can kick ass, and looks amazing in the suit.
The fights were incredible. My favorite was the Cap/Tony/Bucky fight at the end. Just the image of Bucky ripping out Tony's arc reactor was a joygasm on its own, but it was so cool and epic to see these two buddies from the 40s teaming up to stop this modern threat to them. And Tony really gets his ass kicked. Cap is battering him in the suit, so much so that Friday warns Tony that he can't defeat him hand to hand, there's this great shot where you see Cap pummeling Tony from Tony's POV, and Evans is like an animal with his fists and the shield.
In conclusion, Civil War is the greatest comic book movie ever made. It really is. I hope HT makes more and more from it, I'd even get a digital young Tony, Downey's work was that great here, but the film belongs to Evans and Stan. Just like it should.
