Captain America Civil War

Here is the incredibly Bucky-centric and scattered review of Captain America:  Civil War:

I saw it in the theatre 5 times.  It was long, 2.5 hours.  It was pretty good, not as good as the Winter Soldier, but good.  Bucky had a decent role, but in the end he was not exonerated.  

In a movie universe where characters with troubled pasts are forgiven somewhat easily, Bucky is still seen as questionable.  Even in the view of some casual viewers he is seen as a villian.  I don't quite understand.

Why won't people just leave me alone?

• Natasha was an assassin.  Presumably, she has killed many people before switching sides
• Clint had a shady past that the movies haven't really explored, but we did watch Loki brainwash him and force him to kill SHEILD agents and cause general trouble.
• Bruce kills people and hurts them as he smashes his way around in his Hulk rages. There is no way to dispute this.
• Tony created Ultron.  Ultron would not have come into being if Tony had left things alone. Ultron was a sentient robot who killed many thousands of people and did damage to the nation of Sokovia.   
• Wanda used her magics to help Hydra.  She gave Tony the desparate vision that led to him creating Ultron which ultimately led to her own nation being destroyed and her brother dead.
• Fury is just a shady MF, but we already knew that!  ;)

This stylized picture is not a realistic depiction of the story.  The Cap team bands together to help Bucky and Steve stop Zemo from releasing 5 bad super-soldiers from stasis in Siberia.  Except that never gets to happen because Zemo is just looking to get the heroes together for a battle royale.  The whole team never makes it to Siberia either. Bucky only has a gun as shown below.  He is using one of Natasha's weapons because he thinks he is about to face five loyal Hydra super soldiers with only Steve as back up.  Of course he is wrong.

Seeing Steve and Bucky working together again was one of the best parts of the movie.  I had wished there was more conversation between them.  There is a cute line about them both being 100, but so little of the movie is their one to one talk about the past and how they can reconcile.  Fortunately, their relationship is shown to be unified and Steve most definitely knows Bucky has his back.  

T'Challa, the Black Panther, is introduced in this movie.  If I didn't already love Bucky so much, Black Panther would be my favorite. He spends most of the movie trying to kill Bucky because he is convinced Bucky killed his father.  However, in the end he proves to be an honorable king and he shelters Bucky (and presumably the rest of Team Cap).  

In the end, Bucky wants to return to Cryo.  He feels it is too risky to the world for him to be awake because there are trigger words that might set him off in a brainwashed rage.  How many other characters are that willing to be stopped?  Maybe only Steve would be that noble, but there it is, the nobility of both Steve and Bucky.

It should be noted that after the fight in Siberia.  Steve drops the shield and is no longer Captain America.  He breaks his friends out of the underwater Raft prison illegally (all while looking rather naughty about it).  

I'm intrigued to see what happens next.  Black Panther, the movie, starts filming in early 2017.