Captain America: Brave New World 2025
This movie has gotten low to mediocre reviews, but I was still willing to take a chance on it. It is a decent movie, enjoyable, but not memorable, with a number of glaring weaknesses. One of the big problems is there are several villains involved and none of them get a lot of screen time. I have complained in the past about action movie actresses who are supposedly able to fight men twice their size and they have doubled down on that with an even tougher and smaller actress this time. It makes no sense. Either go with beefier actresses, keep them out of fistfights, or explain it away with superpowers. In fact, they just keep introducing more and more characters into the MCU and then usually end up doing nothing with them. Every movie seems to have to build its own franchise. And because of this, the movie ends up feeling more like a supersize episode than a stand alone movie. There are some attempts at serious acting scenes, but the writing and the cast just can't carry it off, to the point that they even make fun of it at one point. Still, if you just want a political espionage kind of Marvel movie with a lot of action, this movie will still work for most audiences. I enjoyed it despite its own clunkiness, but certainly wished it could have been better.
Written: 18 Feb 2025