Captain America: Civil War Review - 13 Non-Spoiler Reasons It's The Best Marvel Movie Ever
Marvel Studios bolsters its already impressive résumé with its greatest success!
Captain America: Civil War begins its worldwide release schedule this week, but the word is already out that Marvel Studios has another massive hit on its hands. Critics are loving it, as are fans lucky enough to have attended advanced screenings and for good reason. Captain America: Civil War is Marvel's best movie yet.
It feels like every new Marvel Studios film is hailed as the best one ever, but that's not actually true. It's no knock on either film, but most fans and critics were not inclined to anoint Avengers: Age of Ultron or Ant-Man as Marvel's best last year. We have not seen immediate "best ever" reactions since 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Captain America: Civil War is going to give each of those films and other all-time greats like Iron Man and The Avengers a run for their money. It's also going to make a metric ton of money at the box office while earning every penny. Marvel Studios, directors Joe and Anthony Russo, writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and producer Kevin Feige have outdone themselves with their latest effort.
To mark the release of the studio's 13th film, this article highlights 13 reasons Captain American: Civil War is the best Marvel movie ever made. Don't worry, I'm going to keep things fairly vague and stick to what's already publicly known about the film to avoid spoilers.
13. Zemo
Daniel Brühl's Zemo is an antagonist unlike any other in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or superhero movies in general. He does awful things, but he's not evil for the sake of being evil. His motivation is expertly constructed so that the audience and even The Avengers themselves can eventually understand why he is coming after them.
Some fans may not like the changes that were made to Zemo compared to comic book canon, but they work well for the purposes of this story. In a movie that spends most of its time focusing on the heroes battling each other, the villain had to be someone with clear, concise motivations that drove him or her to make a major impact on the story.
Zemo delivers on all of that.