Captain America: Civil War - 10 Biggest Last Minute Concerns

2. It Could Lack Punch

One of the biggest selling points of using Ciivl War as the basis for the film was always the scale of threat and the enormity of the events in the arc. Not only did it end with Captain America's death, it also featured other deaths (of Goliath and the New Warriors), some serious splits (the Fantastic Four) and major shockwaves. Can we really expect those sorts of stakes to be introduced in a popcorn movie?

Curiously, the reviews available so far seem to consciously miss out the bit where they talk about how closely it adapts the comic - how faithful it is and how many deviations there are. Does that mean it's not important? How can fans of the comic arc NOT get anxious about that?

Again it comes down to comparisons with what came before. Where The Winter Soldier was considered a triumph in clever writing and character building, it feels like a trade down to hear Civil War called "a huge aspartame rush of a film: a giant irresistible snack, not nutritious, but very tasty."

Snacking is all well and good, but the allusion to sugary and fatty fast food doesn't exactly sound like the film ends with an emotional gut-punch. That sort of analogy simply doesn't fit with a pure adaptation of Civil War, and you have to worry that the impact of the comic's events won't translate over.