Capitão América: Admirável Mundo Novo

I found it absolutely impossible to get interested in it. The writing is at its very, very best functional.

Action scenes pop up frequently enough to keep the most fidgety teen engaged.

The not-so-secret weapon this CAPTAIN AMERICA has going for it is Harrison Ford. Don't believe the nay-sayers out there: Brave New World is a 21st century Tall Tale, and if it takes two viewings to take it all in, so be it

If Brave New World is a sign of things to come, then the MCU is in more trouble than we thought.

Brave New World is unconcerned with plumbing any of its latent politics, let alone exploring any fresh ground. Instead, the movie serves up another sloppily knocked-together bit of pseudo-entertainment.

If Brave New World isn't the worst movie ever released under the Marvel banner, it might just be the dullest -- a humorless, grayed-out vision of contractual obligation featuring actors who look like they'd rather be anywhere else.

Brave New World takes center stage, but it never turns on the mic; lips move, but we don't hear anything at all.

Captain America: Brave New World is a wasted opportunity.

It's a toothless attempt at topicality. Because of that, there's little that feels very brave and even less that struck me as new.

In keeping with the MCU's increasing insularity, the vast conspiracy is mostly just a collection of loose ends from other Marvel projects that doesn't add up to much.

As excellent as Evans was as Cap, Mackie's shown equal skill in crafting his own version of what that character should mean - in his case, weathering the pressures and politics of being a national symbol and being as adept with his words as his fists.

It's too much to saddle his stand-alone film with this much exposition, and yet, Mackie and Onah bear it with as much grace as they can… a decent political thriller with something culturally resonant to say that exceeds mere comic-book particulars.

If "Brave New World" isn't an event film, at least it's competently executed, without resorting to played-out gimmickry such as skipping across the multiverse. And it gives the audience plenty of analogues for real-world problems.

For his part, Mackie is charismatic and has star power, though he still feels somewhat timid in the role, and he lacks the character moments to truly shine.

The movie's more interested in fan service and protecting corporate IP then in telling that story, or any story.

The movie wouldn't feel human at all, really, if not for the convincing emotion bond established between Mackie and Carl Lumbly as Isaiah.

The pleasures offered in "Captain America: Brave New World" are neither grand nor groundbreaking, but they're consistent and earned.

The fight sequences are meditative, the grave-whisper acting belongs in a coming-attraction trailer from 1996 and, yet again, the viewer needs to have watched a TV series and at least two movies to fully grasp what's happening.

With its cheap action and garish visuals, it's then that we enter yet another genre altogether: action-figure commercial.

Instead of feeling like the big, splashy debut of a new era for the MCU, Brave New World feels like the subpar sequel to a better movie that doesn't actually exist.