Marvel Third Batch
Here is are my reviews for the third group of Marvel films. Note there are third act spoilers here: Captain America: Civil War (2016) The third Captain America solo film is anything but. The Avengers team up films generally offer the greatest spectacle with smaller arcs for the main characters. The solo films usually focus on one hero’s exploits and any other players are within that hero’s group. Winter Solider directors Anthony and Joe Russo return to tell a compelling story about Steve Rogers that tests his values but in a way that impacts nearly the entire Avengers unit. Civil War retroactively makes Age of Ultron a better film by focusing on the aftermath of the damage of the third of that film. Tony, already in an unhappy state due to a temporary separation from Pepper Potts (who has not been seen since Iron Man 3), perhaps in part due to the guilt from creating Ultron, is confronted by a mother of a young man who had been killed in Segovia in the climax o