Captain America: Civil War (2016) - TRAILER REACTION

Divided we fall is the tagline for Marvel's Captain America: Civil War, and the first trailer itself is very much representative of that. It's a trailer fans have been begging for for ages, and now that it's finally here, it's easy to feel incredibly underwhelmed by it. Alas though, this is Marvel, and they know what fans want to see and what they should see to get them hyped enough, so its an awesome trailer of awesomeness showing you all the stuff you weren't that bothered about, but now are because it's in the trailer. Well done Marvel, you made another awesome teaser trailer. Please don't let too much slip out before the film comes out though.
It's very interesting that the trailer is focused on the relationship between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. One of the main criticisms people had with Captain America: The Winter Soldier was that the titular villain/hero/Uncle Ben-type-character didn't feature too prominently within the actual story. Here though, Bucky seems to be the catalyst for the titular Civil War - something that doesn't seem quite as big as one would imagine from the trailer. I can't help but think that this is a movie that could be split into an entire trilogy of 2 1/2 hour movies with $300 million budgets each, but alas Marvel have decided to make one, 2 1/4 hour movie with a $250-$300 million budget. Of course, I'm not saying these numbers are completely accurate, but it's guess work based on prior Marvel movies and other big blockbusters, so it's more of an educated guess than just a random theory.
But yeah, Bucky's in this...and I have nothing more to say on that. It looks like this is going to be a very personal movie for Cap, with him fighting his friends in order to prevent his brainwashed, enhanced, criminal best friend whom he thought was dead before The Winter Soldier.It's awesome that Marvel are advertising a character-centric action movie for once. As much as Marvel's action impresses, there are characters in this action who need to be fleshed out as well, and Marvel seems to only focus on this in the movies themselves - not the trailers.
I feel like I've not seen everything I want to though. There's hardly any sign of Agent 13, Martin Freeman, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Spider-Man, War Machine, Baron Zemo (whoever the hell that is) or Crossbones (that guy you vaguely remember from The Winter Soldier who survived for this very sequel). This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I kinda wanted to see Scarlet Witch do some...Scarlet Witch-y stuff...? Also, Vision's cool. Not sure what he is exactly or what he can do, but he's played by Paul Bettany, who I remember too well as being punched by Alan Tudyk in A Knight's Tale.
But the trailer is very well-edited though. It doesn't show too much but it shows enough for fanboys to salivate over and movie fans like myself to go "huh, that looks cool, but needs more Black Widow and Scarlet Witch". Seriously Marvel, Captain America's cool and all, but Black Widow has an interesting origin story, and Scarlet Witch has seemingly unlimited powers. That must be a good enough reason to make movies for both of them?
Captain America: Civil War looks pretty awesome though. Can't say how good it'll be, because I feel like Marvel are showing the bare minimum in this trailer, but I'm certainly excited to see this trailer in an IMAX cinema, watch the next trailer and then in April go and see the finished film.
It's kinda a shame that DC's Legends of Tomorrow trailer #2 has been massively overshadowed now though. That looks pretty cool.
Captain America: Civil War is released on April 29th 2016 in the United Kingdom and May 6th 2016 in the USA, and I promise I'll be a little less casual in my full review.

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