Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World. Courtesy of Marvel/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Marvel Fatigue has been a thing long enough that we’re now experiencing “Marvel Fatigue Fatigue,” in that critics and lapsed fans like myself are not only tired of Marvel movies, we’re tired of complaining about them. I’d hoped—though not expected—that Captain America: Brave New World might shake me from my Marvel malaise. After all, it’s been nearly a decade since the last film installment in the Cap franchise, and Brave New World is the first film in which the former Falcon, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), gets to play the lead as the new Captain. This could have been a refreshing new start, or perhaps a welcome return of the superhero/airport-bookstore-political-thriller mashups that set the latter Cap films apart from the rest of the Marvel catalog. Instead, Brave New World—directed by Julius Onah and written by five people—doesn’t really feel like anything. Not particularly good or bad, it is “another Marvel movie”—certainly not the cure to what’s been ailing the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Endgame.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD ★1/2 (1.5/4 stars)
Directed by: Julius Onah
Written by: Rob........

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