The Blame Game

Rating: 5/10 (21 June 2016)

Action Cinematography: Great Acting: Consistent with the rest of MCU flicks Storyline: Garbage.
The biggest gripe I have with Captain America: Civil war is they use one of the lowest forms of storytelling, the misplaced blame angle. They don't just do it once, oh no, it's the only plot device used to move the story forward. Ironman and the UN wrongfully accuse the winter soldier of the Vienna bombing (and the conscious decision to carry out multiple terrorist attack's throughout history). The UN place's blame on the Avengers for all the destruction from the previous movies and the most recent Nigeria bombing. The movie's main villain, Helmut Zemo, holds the Avenger's responsible for the loss of his family in the Battle of Sokovia. That's the movie in a nutshell. Of course, all of the avenger's being held accountable for this and that do little to defend their actions to their accuser's, in some cases, not at all. If Civil War had logical interactions amongst characters no movie would exist, would there?
Misplaced blame is one of the reason's why Batman vs. Superman was bad and it's becoming an increasingly prevalent device in the MCU. The dialogue in this one was also some of the weakest offered from any other part of the series. I'll give the script a pass for allowing Helmut Zemo the ability to impersonate a psychiatrist in what should be one of the world's most securest facilities. He was a former intelligence officer after all, eh? But he automagically acquire's both the Winter Soldier Book AND clear footage of a double murder on a desolate road from 1991, that shows the identity of both victims and the killer? Holy hell, even for a comic book movie that's pretty damn impressive. If only Harry Potter looked this guy up he could have had all those friggen' horcruxes in a couple of off-screen minutes.
TL;DR - Civil war is a good spring action flick if you like Michael Bay movies.