A mildly better 'Batman v. Superman'

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2016)

We've come to it again. Marvel's yearly offering is here and they're all starting to blur. I am now ready to give the world my thoughts. And I am really going to be a nasty contrarian here...
The long and short of it is that it maybe the most disappointing movie Marvel has ever made. Despite moments of brilliance it ends up being one of Marvel's worst offerings as a studio. If I had to pin it down on one thing it would be that it follows the formula to a tee and that with this Civil War story line with dramatic possibilities it has no stakes whatsoever.
The Civil War fight isn't about ideas. None of our heroes take a fully fledged philosophical stand to fight for their beliefs. It is merely a fight about personal grudges and bad feelings brought to a large scale. The 'Civil War' plays as if we get the little humorous personality complexes from Whedon's first 'Avengers' brought to fist fights really. Only the faintest traces of the Patriot Act type commentary that the Civil War story line had in the comics are shown. In the end it all comes down to Tony wanting revenge for the death of his parents. And I am sorry but I am so tired of the "But he killed my mother!" It all but ruined the excellent 'X-Men; First Class' and it does the same here. It's the laziest of writing you can do in any story. Tony and Cap aren't really all that different in the end. Tony basically finds the conspiracy to destroy the Avengers and says "but you killed my mother!"
When you watch these superhero movies am I the only one who gets bored when nobody gets hurt, wounded or maimed in the slightest? 'Civil War' suffers because it is about our heroes fighting each other and so neither side can suffer any casualties because they have to return for the sequel. Why should I care about anything that happens in this battle? And I realize that 'killing off' any of these characters would merely be temporary. And yet wouldn't it be so interesting to see how the characters and audience might react to such an ordeal if Steve or Tony were thought to be dead? As awful as 'Batman v. Superman' was it at least had more guts than this movie did in that it 'Killed off' Superman.
We need something to show that this civil war mattered. We can't just have the status quo otherwise nothing about this mattered. Do they really expect me to believe that you couldn't kill off one of the B-list Avengers? Who's going to miss Wanda Maximoff? Or Hawkeye? Show that this thing had stakes. Tony and Cap are going to befriends again just like that.
I really didn't care for it.
(And here's another point of conversation. Spider-Man makes his latest appearance and also makes a groan worthy reference to that 'old movie Empire Strikes Back' (which **** you Disney for trying to shamelessly cross promote your stuff) And please what red-blooded American nerd hasn't seen 'Empire Strikes Back' fifty times? Disney has also trapped themselves badly. This line means that 'Star Wars' is a work of fiction in this universe. Which ultimately means that Marvel and 'Star Wars' cannot conceivably cross-over. So no Boba Fett as Starlord's father I'm afraid. (Then again how much credit does Disney really give you?))