Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Release date: Dec 16, 2016 (USA)
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
Writers: Chris Weitz (screenplay),Tony Gilroy (screenplay), John Knoll (story by),Gary Whitta (story by), George Lucas (based on characters created by)
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Stars: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Allison Shearmur Productions, Black Hangar Studios
Runtime: 133 mins
Review:
Like Batman v Superman, Captain America: Civil War starts with mankind grousing about all the collateral damage caused, time and again, by the efforts of superheroes to save the planet. Earth survives, true, but sometimes a downtown does wind up obliterated, and then the caped, the powerful, the all-but-indestructible end up hearing nothing but bellyaching. (This, not coincidentally, is one of the ongoing themes of the presidential election – does the world even deserve a country as good and helpful as the United States? Only the costumes aren’t as imaginative.)
The difference between the two blockbusters – and Captain America is destined to become one, instantly – is a matter of attitude. BvS, which was a lot more enjoyable than the reviews indicated, was intensely conscious of its mythic baggage. If you gave Batman and Superman each their own boulder to push up an endlessly steep cliff, they’d probably say, “That’s a just pebble. Got anything larger?” The characters in Captain America, by comparison, are a kind of extreme bowling league: They’ll demolish as many pins as happen to be set up, of whatever size, but they’ll make sure they have fun doing it – regardless of their own lachrymose backstories – and let us have a good time, too.
