‘Captain America: Civil War’
› Rating: PG for extended sequences of violence, action and mayhem.› Running time: 2 hours, 16 minutes.
The most impressive superpower on display in “Captain America: Civil War” isn’t Tony Stark flying in a tin suit or Steve Rogers throwing a hefty shield like a Frisbee. It’s the whole team’s ability to give an escapist comic-book movie an intelligent sense of connection to life in the modern world.
The 13th film in the 8-year-old Disney/Marvel Cinematic Universe is straight-up entertainment and a cautionary tale.
Echoing their paranoid political-thriller approach in 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” directors Anthony and Joe Russo throw a wrench into every received convention we expect from genre movies. This follow-up digs further into security procedures that often feel more invasive than protective.
Here the vainglorious Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and true-blue Rogers (Chris Evans), who have long had a conflicted relationship, butt heads and every other body part.