From now on, it decrees, superheroes cannot zoom into combat until they are given the go-ahead by a United Nations committee. The world’s leaders have a conference – apparently without the knowledge of the Avengers – and draft a new doorstop-sized agreement called the Sokovia Accords.
They’re hardly the first innocent bystanders to be killed during the course of a super-skirmish, either. Naturally, chaos ensues, and when Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) uses her telekinesis to fling a bomb away from Cap, the explosion kills several civilians instead. Cap (Chris Evans) and his various sidekicks are on a stake-out in Lagos, Nigeria, where they hope to catch some superpowered terrorist group or other. But while you have to admire the professionalism and panache with which they’ve ticked all the boxes on their to-do list, you may also wish that they had been allowed to try something bolder.Ĭivil War opens with a sequence modelled on the pre-credits set pieces in Daniel Craig’s Bond movies. The people behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier – directors Anthony and Joe Russo, and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely – have succeeded in constructing an engaging, just-about-coherent global thriller, which is no small feat, given that they had to marshal a soap opera’s worth of characters, choreograph a series of acrobatic fight scenes, refer back to a dozen previous films, and lay the groundwork for several more. However much you love Civil War, on the other hand, its only ambition is to be a bright, shiny link in the chain between the last Marvel film and the next one. But however much you may despise DC’s film, it clearly had ambitions to be a challenging, idiosyncratic exploration of how terrifying it would be to share a planet with an omnipotent alien being. Admittedly, I liked Dawn of Justice, which may disqualify me from any reasonable discussion of the matter.
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