Marvel Mediocrity Continuous

Rating: 5/10 (6 May 2016)

It's pretty baffling to think that we are thirteen movies into a cinematic universe or franchise and yet for some reason(in my opinion) there is a odd sense of similarity in all these movies whether it relates to the theme, style or content.Maybe these movies are keen in focusing on that important factor or maybe it's more likely that they are simply recycling the same matter over and over again without any cinematic style.
I refer to them as movies instead of films because they are just that, routine blockbusters made to entertain audience and comic book fans through accurate and enhanced representation of characters and reliant use of computer generated effects to deliver spectacle rater than actually telling a meaningful story by fully taking advantage of the visual medium of film.
Civil war has all the traits of a marvel movie(for better or for worse). The camera-work is shaky, especially during the fight sequences, making them pretty irritating.The cinematography is pretty bland, dull and worst of all is colorless(not as bad as batman v superman though). The score or music is forgettable and the sound was just about the same as all these films.
The entire movie pretty much presents the question of whether an avengers is required or not(mush like superman) and shows the inner conflict within the avengers on whether to agree to be supervised.It shows the conflict between captain America and iron man, which builds to a full fledged battle between their respective teams(members of the avengers) and the airport fight was fun, it just didn't make for a compelling battle.The film then focuses on the winter soldier, who was framed by Zemo, another antagonist and then reveal a past incident which furthers the feud between iron man and Steve Rodgers, making it more personnel.While i applaud the movie for depicting situations of conflict within such close friends, it doesn't make up for the fact that the humans in this movie are treated as insignificant and incapable of protecting an event involving important leaders.Zemo is able to easily bomb the united nations meeting without any detection, which is simply absurd.The 3d is pretty much wasted and doesn't add anything to enhance the movie. Moreover the movie failed to live up to the seriousness of the plot due to weak dialog, mediocre acting and the inclusion of characters that didn't bring anything to the movie and instead just padded the running time(Spiderman, vision, scarlet witch).
This movie is overstuffed with characters like the black panther, ant man, vision, Hawk-eye etc.Hell i really don't understand why they couldn't add Thor and Hulk and just name it avengers 3.There is a Spiderman cameo in this where he shows his admiration for the avengers, cracks lame jokes and does his share in the battle at the airport and all of it just doesn't work at least for me.It angered how they reduced Spiderman to a mere fan of the avengers assemble when he is a more iconic character than them.Spideman was basically thrown into the movie for the sake of pleasing the fans. The new suit just looked digitally tailored and ridiculous and the cracking of jokes during n important battle just swept any tension for that event.Despite having hurdles of materials and weapons thrown against them, not a single member lost their life.
The acting is pretty mediocre.Robert Downy Junior plays the same character he played in the previous films, only more restraint and with less depth.Scarlett Johnson is alright, though i never felt anything for her character.T supporting cast didn't add much to the movie. Chris Evans was just bland and had the same face throughout the entire movie.I never for once believed in his character and his performance didn't help the situation.The questions regarding the safety and security of people by their watchful guardians and how much of that authority is accountable is reduced to a simple answer of team iron man or captain America by the entire company with it's promotional trailers.In the end it didn't feel like best of friends cashing in rage due to indifference's during the final battle but instead felt like two emotionless robots fighting for the sake of building a battle.
So While not a bad film in any ways civil war much like all marvel movies suffer from the overstuffed characters,bland performances as well as uninspiring film making techniques.The safe and generic approach of film making opted by the creators pretty much disqualified any artistic merit involved in the movie and at the end of the day it's basically a product meant to e consumed by the masses without any hesitation or effort, discounting everything that makes cinema grant.