A fun, exciting movie with some questionable events

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2018)

Civil War succeeds in the areas that make many Marvel movies fun: a phenomenal, massive cast that works well together and great action sequences. I feel very similarly about this movie as I did about The Last Jedi: both exciting movies you're super engaged the entire time, but many character decisions leave you scratching your head. In Civil War, it seemed like a disproportionate amount of the conflict was driven purely by revenge, which seemed simplistic for such brilliant and nuanced people like Stark. The full-on Avengers battle seemed a bit unrealistic to me in how all the characters accepted it as inevitable, and as always in these movies, the action scenes seem super unrealistic in how resilient the main characters are and how weak the generic soldiers are. Despite some questionable events, the movie brought in a large cast effectively, and gives you an enjoyable experience.