‘Captain America: Brave New World’ review: Sorry, Marvel is still terrible
nypost.comEternals.” “Eternals”!Anthony Mackie’s first big-screen crack at the Captain after receiving the red, white and blue shield from Steve Rogers in “Avengers: Endgame” is another major disappointment from the crumbling Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And the dud is especially glaring because the “Captain America” films are some of the best stand-alone entries in the 35-part franchise.
This one is, by a wide margin, the worst of those. Shield your eyes.The villain is a drab “Star Trek” reject, the fight sequences are meditative, the grave-whisper acting belongs in a coming-attraction trailer from 1996 and, yet again, the viewer needs to have watched a TV series and at least two movies to fully grasp what’s happening.A sick joke, that pair of clunkers is “Eternals” and “The Incredible Hulk.” The homework from Hell.
What were these people thinking?Perhaps director Julius Onah and the five screenwriters were nervous, like Sam Wilson (Mackie) is about becoming Captain America in the first place.
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