Captain America: Brave New World (12A)
Cast: Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Tim Blake Nelson, Anthony Mackie, Liv Tyler, Harrison FordGenre: Action
Author(s): Malcolm Spellman, Julius Onah, Dalan Musson, Peter Glanz, Rob Edwards
Director: Julius Onah
Release Date: 14/02/2025
Running Time: 118mins
Country: US
Year: 2025
Sam Wilson explores his heroic new role with vibranium wings and Captain America's distinctive shield. US Secretary of State Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross charms voters and is elected President of the United States. With great power comes great stress, as Ross faces a devastating international incident. Wilson and US Air Force First Lieutenant Joaquin Torres, aka the new Falcon, are rallied for a daredevil mission to avert global catastrophe.
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Captain America: Brave New World (12A) Film Review from LondonNet
Hideously mutated brains trump digitally rendered brawn in Captain America: Brave New World. Director Julius Onah’s solidly entertaining and largely uneventful superhero mission steadies the Marvel Cinematic Universe ship and lays the groundwork for Thunderbolts* in May, the cacophonous conclusion to phase five, and the reformation of the Avengers in a multiversatile phase six dominated by Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom…
Annoyingly, the satisfying narrative twists of this latest hurrah for Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) with his bulletproof vibranium wings are spoilt in the trailer. A couple of cameos by returning characters provide a narrative tether from Hulk’s second movie in 2008 to the current timeline via Eternals, reminding us of the horrific repercussions of exposure to gamma radiation during the Super Soldier programme. Five scriptwriters invest two hours going nowhere fast, contriving a geopolitical catastrophe with uncomfortable echoes of the present conceived by a tortured mastermind whose most pointed words are reserved for the end credits.
Mackie powerfully captures the self-doubt and steely resolve of a former pararescueman who fears he will never live up to his predecessor and fully deserve the title he now holds, while Harrison Ford lends gravitas to his rabblerousing head of state with a volcanic temper. The most emotionally wrought scenes of tear-filled regret and hard-fought redemption work because of them.
Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Ford), the war-mongering General and Secretary of State who enacted the Sokovian Accords that tore the Avengers apart, is elected President of the United States under a banner of togetherness. He enters office as global leaders bicker over Celestial Island – the marbled remains of Tiamut, the Dreaming Celestial, in the Indian Ocean. To broker a treaty that guarantees equal spoils. Ross hosts a world summit at the White House attended by key figures including Japanese Prime Minister Ozaki (Takehiro Hira).
The President extends an invitation to the current Captain America, Sam Wilson (Mackie), and the new Falcon, US Air Force first lieutenant Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez). “Work with me, Sam. We’ll show the world a better way forward,” urges Ross, who claims to be a changed man. When a terrorist attack on home soil signals the emergence of a new threat, Sam defies orders to launch his own investigation and puts himself and allies on a collision course with the president’s formidable head of security and former Black Widow, Ruth Bat-Seraph (Shira Haas).
Captain America: Brave New World is a misnomer. Onah’s picture upcycles and repurposes, including a blitzkrieg of digital trickery in the final 10 minutes, to tease bigger and better things further down the MCU road. Airborne action sequences feel the need for pleasant speed while hand-to-hand fisticuffs on terra firma are slickly choreographed to deliver moderate bone-crunching violence suitable for a family-friendly 12A certificate. Same Old Comic Book World.
– Kim Hu
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