#Captain america vs iron man series#

The worldвЂ™s leaders have a conference вЂ“ apparently without the knowledge of the Avengers вЂ“ and draft a new doorstop-sized agreement called the Sokovia Accords. TheyвЂ™re hardly the first innocent bystanders to be killed during the course of a super-skirmish, either. Naturally, chaos ensues, and when Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) uses her telekinesis to fling a bomb away from Cap, the explosion kills several civilians instead. Cap (Chris Evans) and his various sidekicks are on a stake-out in Lagos, Nigeria, where they hope to catch some superpowered terrorist group or other. But while you have to admire the professionalism and panache with which theyвЂ™ve ticked all the boxes on their to-do list, you may also wish that they had been allowed to try something bolder.Д¬ivil War opens with a sequence modelled on the pre-credits set pieces in Daniel CraigвЂ™s Bond movies.

#Captain america vs iron man series#

The people behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier вЂ“ directors Anthony and Joe Russo, and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely вЂ“ have succeeded in constructing an engaging, just-about-coherent global thriller, which is no small feat, given that they had to marshal a soap operaвЂ™s worth of characters, choreograph a series of acrobatic fight scenes, refer back to a dozen previous films, and lay the groundwork for several more. However much you love Civil War, on the other hand, its only ambition is to be a bright, shiny link in the chain between the last Marvel film and the next one.

But however much you may despise DCвЂ™s film, it clearly had ambitions to be a challenging, idiosyncratic exploration of how terrifying it would be to share a planet with an omnipotent alien being. Admittedly, I liked Dawn of Justice, which may disqualify me from any reasonable discussion of the matter.