The authors again managed to assemble a large team of characters, and each of them was given a real role. No one was forgotten or left in the background, each character comes to the screen with something: with history, with humor, with drama, with special effects, with powers. I didn’t catch any of them doing anything psychological. There is an intrigue in the film, and not even one: the identity and plan of the villain, the personality of Bucky, what the Agreement will lead to. A shocking twist with five soldiers (then the McGuffin drain had yet to become the franchise's ever-recurring oddity). The plot and the message are not too brilliant, but they are: a film about how people are afraid to live when their fate is decided by someone who doesn’t understand, about the dilemma of whether you have the right to use force and power. Go to hell if you think this topic is not realistic or plausible.
But I didn't like the details.
- In a hand watch can not fit an iron glove – an elephant in the refrigerator can not put.
- Some characters jump from a very high altitude and remain unharmed (as in the video "Emanarot"), run in the tunnel faster than cars - I understand that the heroes, but still too much.
- The villain's plan is cracking at the seams and worked more because he was just lucky. In the beginning, he killed a military man, trying to squeal where the super soldiers were! But in the end it turns out he didn’t need them. At what point did he change his mind? Yes, he ended up pitting Cap and Stark against him, but how could he have known they were coming for him so that his record could become a crown weapon? What would he do if Tchala and Wanda came after him? However, there was a lot in his actions and the task of quarreling the Avengers was already carried out on different levels. So let's have a plan/luck ratio of 50 to 50. But draining super soldiers without even postponing them for later is a very pointless act.
- Too many people have their families killed: Stark, Tchala, Zemo, but the film does not play out the fact that many characters share a common grief, these events occur as if in different spaces.
- Cap tells Stark that he knew Bucky was responsible for killing his parents. When did he find out? Cap was frozen in the ice as the event took place. He didn't even know Bucky was alive recently. They met and started chatting just a day ago, and even if Bucky had confessed at that time, it couldn't be described as, "Did you know?" - Yes, I knew, because it appeals to a long withholding, and there was none.
- I also wondered why the film was marketed as a Cap solo film when it was a full-fledged group film. On "Avengers 3" he does not pull only the fact that the team is divided and does not act as a united front, but if my will, I would call it simply "Confrontation" (by the way, in some century the Russian localization is more correct than the original name, because to call what is happening "Civil war" - well overkill). In fact, the film was really planned to be more focused on Rogers, where Stark was supposed to be more of a villain, but Downey did not agree with this and knocked out an equal role, because of which the concept floated a little.
And last but not least. I went to the movie the day it premiered, May 5, 2016. There was a full room, no free chair. In the hall there was an atmosphere of celebration and puppy delight, I probably never saw such a spiritual people’s unity in my evil dirty town – strangers whispered, joked together, and when Spider appeared in the frame, the hall was PLOSED. I've never seen this before. On the credits, almost no one left the hall, waiting for the final scenes. The story may not be impressive, but if you saw it with your own eyes, you would realize that a small miracle is happening. And it's for this miracle, for catharsis, when the word "crowd" suddenly becomes positive, and art is made. Then the reviewers of course found in the film a bunch of film sins, incorrectly placed in the neighboring shots of glasses, inconsistencies in the scenes, and I even agree with them, but I was forever left with the impression that I visited the film beautiful, stupid by entertainment standards, and created real magic with the hall.