Unlock the Ultimate MCU Power Ranking: Which Marvel Movie Truly Packs a Knockout Punch?
Some of Marvel’s best work has come from diving into certain specific genres. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, notably, took influence from political thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor—and was a great movie as a result, playing those beats perfectly and never wavering from that, despite at the end of the day still being a Marvel movie and a single chapter in a larger overarching story. Captain America: Brave New World wants to take that same political thriller cue, but never quite pulls it off; Anthony Mackie (as Sam Wilson, now with the Captain America title), Danny Ramirez (now the Falcon) and Harrison Ford (taking over as “Thunderbolt” Ross for the late William Hurt) are all trying their very best, but can only do so much when they’re so consistently let down by a shoddy script filled with poor plotting and clunky, constantly expositionary dialogue. For a political/conspiracy thriller to work, you need to have tension; people need to be wondering what’s going to happen next, who could possibly be responsible, and how could this have possibly happened? But Brave New World was so lacking in confidence that it gave almost all of those things away before the movie even started, major plot points used in marketing attempts to get people into the door. That isn’t what saved this movie; according to reports, it was probably doomed from the start. But it certainly didn’t help.
MCU understanding needed? Yeah. You kind of need to know about everything that came before—how Sam Wilson became Captain America, his relationship with Steve Rogers, the Avengers—and also, inconveniently, a decent chunk of things from The Incredible Hulk and Eternals.
35. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
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