One thing that might have made Captain America: Brave New World a better film, or at least a better moviegoing experience, would have been a final act surprise. Imagine if Disney hadn’t marketed the hell out of the Red Hulk and we hadn’t known going into the movie that Harrison Ford’s president Ross was going to turn into the Red Hulk. If that hadn’t been spoiled in the marketing, it might have been a really fun twist. Instead, we just waited around to see when it would happen and then watched a big fight scene and then that was that. Light spoilers ahead.
Captain America: Brave New World isn’t the best or the worst MCU film. It has some genuinely fun action scenes. There’s a good political thriller buried in the overstuffed plot. Anthony Mackie did a really great job as Captain America, and as someone who is generally not a huge fan of Mackie, I’m happy to report that he really grew on me here.
But outside of Mackie and Ford and some strong but brief moments with both Giancarlo Esposito’s Seth Voelker and Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Sterns, the movie is just a convoluted mess. I’ve already listed three villains: Voelker, Sterns and Red Hulk / Ross, though Ross is less of a villain and more of a well-meaning antagonist and Red Hulk is just a natural disaster. I’m already having trouble keeping track of all these bad guys, plus the new good guys introduced, and the characters from past MCU shows. The more I thought about this movie after seeing it, the less I liked it, because the more I realized how little any of it matters.
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