I had to watch a crappy CAM from a torrent site because I live on a remote island in the Pacific that doesn't get new movies until they hit the shelves on Blu-Ray.
Don't judge. If it's still in theaters at the end of next month when I head back to the states I'll pay to see it x4 (me, wife, 2 kids), so I'm hardly keeping Disney from getting it's cut.
On to the movie.
The Good:
The airport fight was off the chain awesome. Actually every fight was awesome on so many levels.
LOVED Ant-Man going GI-ANT. That was AWESOME!!!
All the costumes were awesome.... except Ant-Man. Don't understand the need for the change. The helmet was cooler before.
Black Panther was awesome too. Can't wait for his stand-alone movie.
Tony Stank?
The Bad:
I'm sure it's much more spectacular in HD and stereo. I missed some stuff, particularly dialogue and non-English speaking scenes with the lousy audio. Like the trigger words for Bucky to go Winter Solider.
Same thing with Age of Ultron. Seeing it in the theater I caught a lot more. Can't wait to see it on the big screen.
I have issues with team Stark taking the position of "We need to be put in check" for all the destruction they cause in the process of keeping people safe and saving the world, but not really putting it into practice as they destroy an airport trying to bring in the criminal-Avengers. Especially when it's based on flimsy evidence. The immediate release of a fuzzy video showing Bucky in Vienna at the scene of the attack at the Sokovia Accords. They didn't see him do anything so it was circumstantial at best... especially in a world where you can wear someone else's face (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and TWS). Nobody ever considers that?
German Special Forces in Bucharest? I guess international law doesn't include trials... just go in and spraying bullets when Bucky was a "suspect".
The evidence comes out that Bucky wasn't involved... but the Avengers in The Raft weren't cleared a freed? The whole reason they're in the prison is BS. According to Stark they're in there because they broke the law. Exactly which law did they break? Helping a "suspect", when Ross/Stark had no intentions of conducting any kind of investigation? BS.
Ross is every bit the dirtbag he always is. I thought for sure when Tony was going to The Raft they were going to pull super-criminals out of there to hunt down Bucky. A little disappointing there. But I guess it would have been weird to introduce super villains that we have never seen before. Especially since the bad guys from all the other movies usually end up dead by the end (Obadiah Stane , Darren Cross, Aldrich KIllian, Red Skull). Is Ivan Vanko and Justin Hammer the only ones they actually put in prison.
Not a huge fan of the globe trotting. They're all over the place... like Age of Ultron. I feel like that kind of takes away from the flow of the movie.
The In-Between:
For those talking about missing the mark with the source material. For as much as we have gotten in the MCU, it would be nearly impossible to have every character that was in the comic version. That said... the scenes where they "go under ground" was a bit lacking. This would have been an awesome opportunity to link the TV MCU to the films by having Punisher, DD, Luke Cage, the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, even if only in cameos.
Poor Rhodey... oh wait, Vision was told by Rhodey to knock out Falcon's jets so he could only glide. No guarantee that he wouldn't have disabled the flight pack completely. Pretty Tony and Rhodey weren't going to turn around to save him from falling. He'd have been dead for sure. I'm not having a pity party for WAR Machine. I might be biased though since I hate Don Cheadle in the role and have been looking forward to seeing something like this happen to him.
After everything that happened, Stark still couldn't seem to let it go.
Aunt May seems kind of young (I guess at 52 Marissa Tomei is hardly a spring chicken, but Aunt May has always been kind of an old lady) and now they live in what looked like a swanky apartment instead of the crappy old row home? I don't know that the Tom Holland is the best Spider-Man ever. Il iked all of them up to this point. It hasn't been the actors as much as the lousy writing for the last movie from each incarnation. I didn't think Holland had nearly enough time on screen as Peter or Spidey for anyone to say he's the best. Still looking forward to seeing the next Spider-Man movie.
Love the "That shield doesn't belong to you. You don't deserve it. My father made that shield." part. Stark is reduced to a child. It would have been cooler if Cap gave him a final blow with "Yeah... he made it for me."
Who is the woman on the other end of Zemo's phone? Or is he listening to a voicemail of his wife before she died?
I kind of wonder if Zemo's final words are more of a hint that he was working for Thanos and this was all being done to make the Avengers ineffective during the Infinity Wars.
