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In Winter Solider we learned that Hydra had spent decades infiltrating SHIELD in strategic locations, with their mission to gain control over a weapons program that could surgically target and eliminate potential threats. This was not just a needed change (since, other than Spider-Man and, to a lesser extent, Black Panther, none of the Marvel heroes have secret identities), it was also a logical progression from the stories established in Winter Solider and Age of Ultron.
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Instead of being about Superhero registration and mandatory unmasking, this movie is about the issue of Government oversight over the Avengers. Under the surface is where things change. Some of the surface elements are still present: It’s still largely a Captain America vs Iron Man feud, and the notion of Government control over superheros is the crux of the disagreement.
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If you are familiar with the comics, you should be aware (and probably are by now) that this movie is only loosely based on Mark Millar’s “Civil War” mini-series that ran from 2006-2007. Instead, Feige and the Russo brothers stuck to the Winter Soldier’s formula and produced a movie that rivals that one as being among the very best Marvel has ever produced. It would have been so easy to make it a mindless popcorn film to try and squeeze every last dollar out of the ticket-buyers. I appreciated that, especially since this was always going to be a billion dollar movie. It’s just that the stuff in between the set pieces is very personal. It’s very much a direct sequel to The Winter Solider in that respect, but unlike that movie, when this one does go big it goes really big. Those were big escapism adventure movies, and even though the marketing for this film promises the same thing, in reality this is a very introspective movie that explores the relationship between Cap and Bucky, Cap and Tony Stark and Cap and his place in this 21st century, post-9|11 world.
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Putting Captain America at the forefront of the movie gives it a grounded center that the two Avengers movies didn’t have. He’s not perfect and you can see where his idealism is the cause of much grief in the movie, but this is his movie and everything that happens occurs based off either the choices he makes or in the way he responds to others’ choices. It follows his story, the one that started way back with Phase One’s “The First Avenger” (the most underrated film in the MCU’s first phase) and is a direct sequel to the events of Cap’s second movie “The Winter Solider.” Yes there is a heavy dose of Tony Stark, and there is a lot of Avenger on Avenger action, and even the main villain of the film is motivated by events that transpired in Age of Ultron (his actual plan is “divide the Avengers and pit them against each other”) but the emotional core of this movie belongs to Steve Rogers. It’s not “Avengers 2.5” or “Avengers-lite” or anything of the sort that reviewers and critics and others are saying. Forget the marketing of the movie, entirely. First of all, forget the trailers and the commercials.