Captain America: Brave New World
PRAISE: The Manchurian Candidate, and Star Wars Episode II : Attack of the Clones i couldn't help but think about these two movies as the 35th Marvel film about Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, finding himself in the middle of an international incident played out.
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson and Captain America has two stand out scenes and one is spoiler filled but it's when he is expressions self doubt is when i really paid attention to the character aside from some early action sequences. As the newly Falcon, Joaquin Torres Danny Ramirez has a couple of good moments. As Thaddeus Ross , Harrison Ford does really well expressing the many twisty layers to the character.Giancarlo Esposito’s Voelker/Sidewinder does well in his moments in the movie.Isaiah Bradley, played by Carl Lumbly, friendship with Wilson carries over nicely from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier show.As Ruth Bat-Seraph, Sira Haas does ok in another brief performance in this movie, the background of her character was interesting and i wondered if she will appear in more Marvel movies. The movie tries to be as cohesive as it can be connecting Marvel films from the past and present. There are some really great hard hitting action sequences coupled with some great sound design and the hand to hand fights weren't bad either. There is one scene that made me wish The Falcon and The Winter Soldier had been given another season. There are some inserts of humor that worked for me.
PROBLEMS: I was hoping for more from the villain. I could definitely tell what was reshot because the green screen in those scenes were awful. One characters "disguise' was laughable. Some characters were taken off the board far to quickly. Predictable moments are scattered throughout the movie. I had to suspend disbelief several times when a character walks away from some fights almost completely unscathed and the audience is reminded of this when a line of dialogue is repeated. CABNW is not as involving or engaging as it wants to be.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 7