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Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop Machine
The messy and tiresome Captain America: Brave New World has a few ideas, but it handles them in the most shallow, simplistic ways.
One assumes that all this pro-forma emotional blather about our hero’s fear of inadequacy came with the initial script, but it also wouldn’t be shocking to learn that it was added later, as a way of acknowledging that the new film itself lives — and wilts — in the shadow of its mostly beloved forebears. Understandably, he can’t quite grasp why Captain America is now making common cause with Ross, a man who has done some monstrous things in his career as a Marvel nemesis, including (as the film reminds us) blowing away much of Harlem in his quest for the Hulk. To its credit, Brave New World does okay with the fights themselves — the stuntwork is effective, and there’s still fun to be had with the way Captain America throws that shield around, plus now he’s also got those Falcon wings — but its dogfights and more VFX-heavy sequences are so lifeless and tiresome that I felt my eyes drifting closed a couple of times.
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