This is a movie that I saw in the theater originally. I caught up with all the Marvel movies to that point as this excited me. I knew a bit about the story in the comics and the idea of bringing that to the big screen intrigued me. Jaime and I watched this as we worked toward Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.

What I've realized in revisiting these movies, Captain America's storylines intrigue me more than some characters. I wasn't even excited when the first one came out, but it has come around for me. I don't necessarily love him as a character. What they do with the social commentary is what gets me.

For this movie, the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron has the world wanting the Avengers to have checks and balances. In this case, they want the United Nations to oversee when they're called into action. Currently, they're too powerful and can do whatever they want without repercussion. What complicates things here is the Winter Soldier references and he's accused of a terrorist attack. Captain America tries to protect him. Iron Man feels bad for what he did and wants to make amends by siding with the government. Winter Soldier has done some bad things, but there's a new villain, Zemo, who is framing him as well.

This movie plays an Avengers movie. We have Black Widow, Falcon, War Machine, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man and Vision all back. We also get introduced to Black Panther and Spider-Man who will have movies in this phase. We also get some great character actors like Frank Grillo, William Hurt and Martin Freeman. The acting here is stacked for sure.

Once again, I love the real government implications here. There is a feeling that movie is calling out America for things that we do and I'm for it. This is a still a popcorn movie with good effects. Some of the CGI doesn't work, but not enough to ruin this. This movie has a bit darker feel as well. It didn't hold up as well after my first viewing, but I did enjoy this and where it takes us from here.

My Rating: 7.5 out of 10.