Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
Brave New World - Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/06/2025
The only positive thing I got from watching this movie is the reminder of how good the song Elephant by Tame Impala is.
Captain America: Brave New World is the first Marvel movie I fell asleep watching, which isn't very good. It's not a bad film, just painfully average, but an average movie is boring.
This feels more like the second season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier rather than a movie. Funny enough, the first season felt more cinematic than this.
Anthony Mackie, bless his heart, but the writing does no favors for him here. I hope that, over time, he will become the leader of a team like the Avengers.
Harrison Ford, surprisingly, doesn't phone it in and delivers a solid performance.
After so many reshoots and rewrites, I wonder how bad the original cut was if …
Rating of
2.5/4
Captain America: Same Old Marvel
Chris Kavan - wrote on 02/22/2025
This phase of the MCU continues spinning its wheels in what is a very bog-standard entry into the long-running franchise. At least this film attempts to connect it to a previous entry (The Eternals) by acknowledging the giant dude in the Indian Ocean (and introducing Adamantium into the MCU to boot). But despite some effort to move things forward, for the most part the film plays it very safe - too safe - and although I thought the cast did its best - with Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford and Danny Ramirez being the standouts in my view - the story was very average the Tim Blake Nelson's Leader makes for a weak villain.
Those going in without having seen Falcon and the Winter Soldier may also be at a disadvantage as both Danny Ramirez' Joaquin Torres and Carl Lumbly's Isaiah Bradley play …
