Captain America Civil War movie review: Marvel's best in years

Marvel's Captain America Civil War is the big release this Friday. With Anthony and Joe Russo back behind the camera and Tony Stark and Steve Rogers battling it out in front of it, Captain America Civil War has been called, in Robert Downey Jr's words, 'The Godfather of superhero movies'. Will this showdown between Iron Man and Captain America be worth your time? Here's our review of the latest superhero flick in town.

Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl
Direction: Anthony and Joe Russo
Ratings:(4.5/5)

Captain America: Civil War comes after March's Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Both the films are essentially based on the same premise. Two superheroes find themselves on different sides of the battle-line, and need to fight it out to prove the other is wrong. But Civil War does it so much better than Dawn Of Justice.

WATCH: Tom Holland's Spider-man in the second trailer of Captain America Civil War

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In 1991, the brainwashed-by-Hydra Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) kills a motorist and steals super-soldier serum from him.

Captain America: Civil War takes place a year after Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) is guilt-ridden because he had created Ultron. The government wants the Avengers on a leash after Scarlet Witch/Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) accidentally blows off a building trying to stop Rumlow (Frank Grillo) from stealing a biological weapon. Several Wakandan relief workers are killed in this accident, and Stark seconds the government's decision, his Ultron-guilt working overtime.

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), on the other hand, can't bring himself to follow the government's diktat. Soon, the Avengers find themselves rallying behind the warring Iron Man and Captain America.

Back on the directors' chair, Anthony and Joe Russo have done a thoroughly impressive job with Captain America: Civil War. The brothers, aided by screenplay writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, succeed in letting people lose themselves in the Avengers' world yet again. The storyline is racy and keeps you on the edge of your seat for most part of the film.

Marvel's Captain America Civil War is the big release this Friday. With Anthony and Joe Russo back behind the camera and Tony Stark and Steve Rogers battling it out in front of it, Captain America Civil War has been called, in Robert Downey Jr's words, 'The Godfather of superhero movies'. Will this showdown between Iron Man and Captain America be worth your time? Here's our review of the latest superhero flick in town.

Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl
Direction: Anthony and Joe Russo
Ratings:(4.5/5)

Captain America: Civil War comes after March's Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Both the films are essentially based on the same premise. Two superheroes find themselves on different sides of the battle-line, and need to fight it out to prove the other is wrong. But Civil War does it so much better than Dawn Of Justice.

WATCH: Tom Holland's Spider-man in the second trailer of Captain America Civil War

ALSO READ: For Robert Downey Jr, Captain America Civil War is the 'Godfather of superhero movies'  

In 1991, the brainwashed-by-Hydra Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) kills a motorist and steals super-soldier serum from him.

Captain America: Civil War takes place a year after Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) is guilt-ridden because he had created Ultron. The government wants the Avengers on a leash after Scarlet Witch/Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) accidentally blows off a building trying to stop Rumlow (Frank Grillo) from stealing a biological weapon. Several Wakandan relief workers are killed in this accident, and Stark seconds the government's decision, his Ultron-guilt working overtime.

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), on the other hand, can't bring himself to follow the government's diktat. Soon, the Avengers find themselves rallying behind the warring Iron Man and Captain America.

Back on the directors' chair, Anthony and Joe Russo have done a thoroughly impressive job with Captain America: Civil War. The brothers, aided by screenplay writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, succeed in letting people lose themselves in the Avengers' world yet again. The storyline is racy and keeps you on the edge of your seat for most part of the film.

Like in all Marvel films, the CGI is the real hero in Captain America: Civil War too. Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt are pretty accomplished with their scissors. The film doesn't feel overstretched, the pace doesn't drop even for once. Trent Opaloch's camera captures Stark's lavish mansion with equal ease as it does the frozen Siberia.

Captain America: Civil War is among Marvel's best offerings so far. The film deals with many plotlines and while that does work against it at certain points, more often than not, Civil War is hugely satisfying. For an Avengers fan, the film is one colossal orgasm. The fight scenes are stunning and really well done.

The big showdown between two of the biggest superheroes is all that many people have wanted to see for a long time. Dawn Of Justice was supposed to have been THE film dealing with two superheroes at loggerheads with each other, but that fumbled bad. Civil War undoes the boredom that Batman and Superman had inflicted on us a month ago.

Watch Captain America: Civil War for everything. The trip to the theatres will not be in vain this time.