Best Marvel Movie which completes an A+ Cap Trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2016)

It feels like everything that Marvel touches turns to gold - CA:CW is no different. The greatness of The Avengers was in seeing all the heroes we'd seen in solo movies coming together, and apart from a couple of minor blips (Iron Man 3, Thor 2), Marvel has continued to build on the great story-telling.
The Russos have knocked it out of the park with Civil War. Some call it Avengers 2.5 - but this is most definitely a Captain America movie. Continuing on from Winter Soldier and picking up the Bucky Barnes narrative, woven into the wider MCU, introducing T'Challa and Spidey, makes this (almost) the largest scale, yet most personal Marvel movie to-date.
Seeing Steve and Tony on opposite ends of a grey spectrum, trading physical and psychological blows, was immense. This was not good v evil - this was the trauma of real world, life-changing decisions.
To see Iron Man see that Bucky was not the villain he was framed as, only to give in to the understandable emotion of watching the grainy footage of The Winter Soldier killing his parents illustrates the nuanced story-writing that permeates this movie.
The are great moments of humour as well - especially from Spidey, who the Russos absolutely nailed. Big expectations for 'Homecoming' but i'll be surprised if that doesn't become the biggest Spidey movie yet.
There are real consequences from the decisions made by the major players and the emotional beats at the end from Steve and Tony underpin that The Avengers have been torn apart from the inside and the MCU will never be the same, perhaps until a certain common enemy in the form of Thanos units the Infinity Stones, bringing The Avengers back together.
While Bucky's story hasn't ended (I'm sure of it), Civil War, as well as serving the wider MCU narrative, is a fitting finale (?) to the Captain America trilogy. I would thoroughly recommend watching The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier and Civil War back to back. For me, it's up there with the best movie trilogies of all time.