Civil War

***Marvel's Civil War***, also known as ***Civil War***, is a 2016 superhero film based on characters from Marvel Comics. The film is the twenty-fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the second film in Volume Four. *Civil War* is a sequel to *Avengers: Disassembled* and *Fantastic Four* and was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Evangeline Lilly as Janet van Dyne/Wasp, Chris Hemsworth as Ragnarok, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Ben Affleck as Hank Pym/Ant-Man, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Ezra Miller as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, John Krasinski as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Emily Blunt as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Emma Caulfield as Emma Frost, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, Alfre Woodard as Miriam Sharpe, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, and Martin Sheen as President Harrison James.

The film was released on July 1, 2016.

## Cast

* Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
* Evangeline Lilly as Janet van Dyne/Wasp
* Chris Hemsworth as Ragnarok
* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
* Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
* Ben Affleck as Hank Pym/Ant-Man
* Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
* Ezra Miller as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
* Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
* John Krasinski as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
* Emily Blunt as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman
* Zac Efron as Johnny Storm/Human Torch
* Jason Sudeikis as Ben Grimm/The Thing
* Mahershala Ali as Bill Foster/Goliath
* Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine
* Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop/Hawkeye
* Natalie Alyn Lind as Cassie Lang/Stature
* Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa
* Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson/Quake
* Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
* Emma Caulfield as Emma Frost
* Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter
* Alfre Woodard as Miriam Sharpe
* Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
* Martin Sheen as President Harrison James

## Reception

### **Box office**

*Civil War* grossed $664.7 million domestically and $1.341 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.006 billion. The film had a domestic opening weekend of $252.3 million, debuting at number one at the box office and beating *X-Men: House of M* from just two months earlier to become the biggest opening weekend of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. *Deadline Hollywood* calculated the net profit of the film to be $773 million.

### **Critical reception**

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 359 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Smart, innovative, and thrilling, *Civil War* adds to the list of blockbusters that succeed viscerally as well as intellectually." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.