THB #674: Captain America: Brave New World

How bad is Captain America: Brave New World?

So bad that one really has to break it down to all of its missteps to really figure out how it all went so wrong.

What struck me first while watching the film was, “Who the hell directed this?” Why? Because the directing was clearly an effort from someone who has no real idea how to shoot a movie like this… a novice. I had no idea who had directed the film and had to wait until the movie was over to turn on my phone and find out it was Julius Onah, whose career is 11 shorts, a music video, The Cloverfield Paradox which is quite bad in spite of its sensational cast, and another amazing cast in a tiny movie not as good as its cast, Luce.

What the everloving fuck?

Kevin Feige very cleverly has brought in arthouse directors to do some Marvel Cinematic Universe titles… with more of these folks leaving projects in the process of development before getting to actually shooting their films. The biggest successes were spin-off titles centered on charac…