The Fantasy Review’s review of Captain America: Brave New World (2025).
Is anyone else exhausted by recent Marvel movies? They used to be fun, exciting, and sometimes touch on the complexities of the worlds in which the stories were told.
Now they are weak imitations of their former greatness.
Spoiler-Free Review of Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Positives first, as this wasn’t a terrible movie. Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America is fantastic. He is too good for the scriptwriters, giving more to his character in body language and tone than the words coming out of his mouth allow for.
We could have an epic run of Captain America under the care of Mackie, if the projects he was in only allowed the character to be epic. Instead, he is forced to parrot some chat-GPT lines of garbage while bashing someone over the head with the shield.
The casting in general for this movie is pretty great, with a highlight being Giancarlo Esposito portraying Seth Voelker – also known as Sidewinder. This is the most exciting part of this movie, hinting at the return of this character.
And there you go. That’s all the positive remarks for this review of Captain America: Brave New World.
This movie didn’t know what it was supposed to be doing. The story was lost in a maze of its own making, complicating things which should have been simple, and skipping over moments that should have had more time and care given for complexity.
The main villain of the story was forgettable.
The climax of the movie was forgettable.
There are no stand-out action sequences… in a Captain America movie!
This movie needed to calm down, settle on one or two elements of the story it wanted to tell, cut extra stuff to use in a future story, and take the time to craft a Captain America story the talent and the audience deserved.
