CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD

Name: CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
Item: CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
Author: Review

"Earnest, Redemptive Performances Hurt by Lackluster Script"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD finds Sam Wilson, who’s taken over for Steve Rogers as Captain America, trying to stop an international crisis engineered by a mysterious villain. The new president, a former general named Ross, invites San to an international event at the White House. The nations of the Earth are haggling over a new source of adamantium, the strongest metal on the planet. President Ross has proposed a treaty where all the major powers share the metal. However, at the event, there’s an assassination attempt on the President’s life by multiple hitmen. The attempt threatens the treaty and could lead to war.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD has some thrilling moments and spectacular action. There are also two touching and redemptive subplots. However, CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD suffers from a predictable plot, an uninteresting cerebral villain, some lackluster dialogue, and a soft ending that’s a bit anticlimactic and rushed. The poor script doesn’t serve the actors well, despite some good performances. CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD also has lots of foul language, including two strong profanities. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong moral worldview with strong patriotic content opposes mind control, uncontrollable anger and revenge, with some positive Christian, redemptive moments favoring justice, repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation, plus title character says, “Thank God!” in a strong positive manner at one point after hearing some good news and rescues two priests and a nun being held hostage;

Foul Language:

About 38 obscenities (including many “s” words and many “h” words), one profanity using the name of Jesus, one GD profanity, and two light profanities;

Violence:

Gunfights, fighting, combat, explosions, assassination attempts, heroes try to stop planes and missiles from starting a war, giant Red Hulk smashes White House and monument, Red Hulk tries to pummel Captain America, Red Hulk throws podium and vehicles, character plunges into ocean and ends up in hospital in a coma, man commits suicide off screen after being brainwashed to murder two people, and characters are stabbed and shot;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

Mutated human called “Red Hulk” has ripped his shirt off because his anger makes him increase his size about three or four times;

Alcohol Use:

Characters drink champagne in one scene;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or illicit drugs but a character is secretly poisoned with radiation in pills he takes for his health; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

People are brainwashed and manipulated against their will.

More Detail:

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD finds Sam Wilson, who’s taken over for Steve Rogers as Captain America, trying to stop an international crisis engineered by a mysterious villain who has a grudge against the new President, Thaddeus Ross, who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged daughter. CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD has some thrilling, heartwarming moments and spectacular action, with two touching redemptive subplots, but it has a predictable plot, an uninteresting cerebral villain, some lackluster dialogue, a soft ending that’s a bit anticlimactic, and lots of gratuitous expletives, including a few strong profanities.

The movie opens with a slightly confusing action scene where Sam, as Captain America, and his protégé, Joaquin Torres, are leading a team to retrieve a stolen package. An assassin named Sidewinder is selling the package to a mysterious buyer at a cathedral somewhere in Latin America. The buyer never shows, and Cap saves two priests and a nun from Sidewinder and his men while Juaquin, who’s taken over for Sam as the Falcon, stops the mercenary soldiers who have the package and are speeding away on motorcycles.

The problem with this action scene is that the movie doesn’t reveal what’s in the package until later, but the new information doesn’t give viewers much information and fails to involve viewers .

The new president, a former general named Thaddeus Ross, invites San and Joaquin to an international event at the White House to showcase a new international treaty involving the item in the package. The item is a piece of stolen adamantium, the strongest metal on Earth. A new source of the metal was found in the giant “space god” that the Eternals, in a previous Marvel movie, turned into marble just as he was emerging from the Indian Ocean after being awakened. Now, the nations of the Earth are fighting over the adamantium, but President Ross has proposed a treaty where all the major powers share the metal and its alien technology.

However, at the White House event, there’s an assassination attempt on the President’s life by multiple hitmen. The attempt creates an international conflict that could lead to war.

Captain America discovers that the assassins were all undergoing mind-control by the mysterious buyer from the first scene. Captain America and Joaquin work to find out the villain’s identity before he starts World War III.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD has some thrilling moments and spectacular action. There are also two touching and redemptive subplots. So, the movie lacks the woke content that derailed the ETERNALS movie and the fourth THOR movie, subtitled LOVE AND THUNDER.

However, CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD suffers from a predictable plot, an uninteresting cerebral villain, some lackluster dialogue, and a soft ending that’s a bit anticlimactic and rushed. The poor script doesn’t serve the actors well, most of whom do a good job. This movie shouldn’t wreck Anthony Mackie’s stint as Captain America in upcoming Marvel movies, but he perhaps needs to be more aggressive in seeing that he focuses on creating a more traditional larger-than-life hero for a broad audience. CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD also has lots of gratuitous expletives, including two strong profanities. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.