CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR 
Dir: Joe and Anthony Russo (12A, 130 mins)
With the roster of superhero stars growing ever larger, it takes a brave director to try and marshal them all. Coming on more like Avengers 3, this third Captain America sequel has former team mates at each other’s throats. Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is riddled with guilt after the damage his creation Ultron did and now gets behind a drive for superheroes to be answerable to authorities. Chris Evans’ Captain America objects to outside interference, especially with everyone after his former best buddy Bucky, the Winter Soldier in Captain America’s last solo outing. This difference of opinion creates a schism right down the middle of the superhero team which ends up having tragic consequences. Much has been teased about the newcomers to the overstuffed Marvel universe, while Spiderman and Black Panther will cameo in the guise of Tom Holland and Chadwick Boseman before their stand-alone films. Hopefully the writers and directors can give everyone a fair crack of the whip rather than the occasional disappointment of the crammed Age of Ultron. Set to recalibrate the Marvel universe before two Avengers films, this is empire building stuff, let’s hope it has room for what made its predecessors’ a success, strong storytelling along with spectacle. Choose your side.
