James Hopkins

Great acting. Overall. Had no problem with Anthony Mackie (probably spelling it wrong) and Harrison Ford's roles. But: My TLDR; is this show fails utterly in common sense writing if you really think about it. For one,Captain America has little to no influence on the overall plot and what happens in the story outside of the intergovernment relations. There was nothing he could do to prevent the bulk of the story from happening before it was even told. The villain is is TOO distant almost completely in the background and basically just a forgettable face to tie some of the events to. The motive makes little to no sense outside of just a raw revenge and that's never a compelling villain. No real impacting encounters between the hero in the villain that would have thwarted the events that happened from happening. He was so off-screen couldn't even remember his name when the movie was over. I had to call him Megamind with dry scalp. Red hulk does nothing for the story besides sell a few more tickets. I get the writers were trying to justify that an un-serumed Captain America could do the job by pitting against an extreme counterpartll but the idea that the counterpart being a hulk when even the Avengers working together had a hard enough time coraling green hulk was a joke in and of itself. They set Anthony up for failure on that decision. If he won, he's a mary sue in male form. He should of lost BIG no way you can justify it any other way to me. Instead we get another extremely anticlimactic conclusion to a fight. Why? Because the writers had to since no way your going to convince fans that the encounter ends in victory for Captain America alone. Some slight wokeness feelings in the only two rememberable white guys being either the idiot sidekick who gets injured right before the major fight scenes or the recovering president who becomes a monster. I try to fight that check in myself when I evaluate movies but Disney lately has made me go insane with all the subliminal messaging in films of late. I forgave this movie thought since ultimately it's a CA movie and not a Falcon movie but i'm just tired of that cliche. Thankfully any messaging in this movie doesn't appear intentionally forced upon me (again outside of maybe casting) but it doesn't detract from the story. Based on potential spoilers this whole movie felt like an episode of a series that set's up to prepare you more for the second part of the episode and shouldn't have been released individually. Alone it's terrible. But I could change my mind when i see where they're heading next.