"Captain America: Civil War" (2016)

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2016)

"Captain America: Civil War" is the second superhero film of 2016 to feature heroic super-powered characters fighting each other - the other film is DC Comics' "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," which I have not yet seen. (On a side note: over the weekend, I watched "Deadpool" finally, which I thought was a refreshing change from the usual pool of superhero movies of late.)
Joe and Anthony Russo return to direct "Civil War," which follows "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014) and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015). In a story that bears some fairly obvious parallels to the contentious debate over the current U.S. foreign policy of interventionism (and the role of the U.S. in world geo-politics as a whole), the super-powered superhero team the Avengers are divided, after their recent battles with evil have left much destruction and lost lives in their wake.
So the Sokovia Accords are drawn up, which seeks to limit the highly costly activities of the Avengers in the event that they need to be deployed into action; Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) is for it, while his best friend and fellow Avenger Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) is against it. Half the heroes side with Iron Man, the other half with Captain America; I never thought I'd side with Captain America ever on anything, but I thought he was in the right here (as well as in the original "Civil War" comic book story-line).
"Captain America: Civil War" also marks the debut of T'Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, and who in comic book history is the first black superhero of any significance, and who later became a prominent figure in the Avengers himself. I'm glad to see that such a historically significant character got the proper treatment in Chadwick Boseman that he deserved. "Captain America: Civil War" also marks the debut of Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as introducing Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd, the film's most welcomed comic relief) into the fold, too.
The movie, as a whole, works, even though the issues that it brings up regarding the role of superheroes in the 2016, post-9/11 world of today take a back seat to overly choreographed fighting sequences, explosions, and special effects. I guess that's the sign of what Marvel Studios/Disney expects that audiences want nowadays - less not more.
7/10