Captain America: Civil War - 9 Major Concerns From The New Trailer
7. The Locations Look Seriously Boring
This point sort of ties in with the seemingly "grey" look of the movie, but it also links back to one of the major missteps witnessed in Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Remember how in that movie the filmmakers decided to set a whole bunch of action scenes in extremely dull-looking, grey-coloured locales? Like the one set in the Eastern Bloc-esque Sokovia, with its washed-out apartment buildings and uninteresting geography? Or how about the one that takes place on just, like, a motorway in Seoul, South Korea? Drained, interchangeable locations that fail to linger in the memory banks. How inspired (not). Now look at the key locations that have been chosen for Captain America: Civil War to play out: what appears to be a airport runway, a tunnel with a road, a warehouse, a bunch of faceless streets and facilities that have no personality. Oh, and don't forget the stairwells. We get it, Marvel: this is going to be a darker, more serious movie, but it's also a movie about superheroes fighting each other. Could you have delivered on some more interesting locations? Do they all have to look so drab? An airport runway is the place where all the heroes decide to duke it out... c'mon, seriously? There were no better choices than that?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.