(Marvel fans will recall that he is Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s wartime-that is to say, WW II-time-best friend, who was long ago given a bionic arm and brainwashed into becoming an assassin for the international conspiracy Hydra.) One after another, the code words needed to activate the killer are spoken: “daybreak … furnace … homecoming … freight car …”įlash forward to present-day Lagos, where an Avengers squad made up of Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) is foiling the theft of a biological weapon. The movie opens in 1991, with a frozen Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) being thawed out for another in a series of murderous missions. In any case, here, as in Winter Soldier, the Russos have achieved an uncommon balance of plot and action, humor and drama, all of it once again deeply grounded in character. But given the ongoing interweavings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe-this movie also integrates last year’s Ant-Man, and serves as a setup for future films with Black Panther and a newly introduced Spider-Man (thank you, Sony!)-such details are becoming incidental. Directed by the brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, Civil War is technically a follow-up to their superlative Captain America: Winter Soldier from 2014.
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