Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The US president is an alarmingly lurid colour and on the rampage, wreaking destruction and diplomatic havoc while being influenced by a crazed tech villain. Wait. Aren\u2019t Marvel movies supposed to offer escapism? The difference in Captain America: Brave New World is that we don\u2019t get nearly enough of this messy spectacle. Audiences have known since the film\u2019s November trailer that Harrison Ford\u2019s Thaddeus Ross will eventually burst his britches and morph into Red Hulk. That leaves few surprises up Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige\u2019s sleeve. It also takes some 90 minutes to arrive.\u00a0What comes before is so much filler. Anthony Mackie ably replaces Chris Evans as the shield-wielding hero, bringing a swagger to the role while flanked by awed fledgling Falcon Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez). But unlike his predecessor, this Captain does not possess superpowers (\u201cI should have taken that serum\u201d), setting up the film\u2019s doughy message that you just have to overcome your origins and work with what you\u2019re given. Other new recruits include diminutive Israeli actor Shira Haas, who punches above her weight as a battle-ready presidential aide. But despite such inclusive intentions, facial disfigurement is once again used as a shorthand for evil when the film\u2019s pathologically embittered puppet master finally steps out of the shadows.Powering this plot is a military mind-control device dusted off from paranoiac classic The Manchurian Candidate. If only Brave New World had that film\u2019s crackerjack George Axelrod dialogue. Where early Avengers movies thrived on mid-skirmish repartee, the ever-expanding MCU is now saddled with so much back-story there\u2019s little room for badinage. And what there is here mostly falls flat. Director Julius Onah, making his franchise debut, adds some pleasing moments of extreme comic-book close-up, but otherwise does little to disrupt the existing formula, including muscular doses of video-game violence.Ford valiantly tries to do some actual acting between action set pieces as President Ross moves from scarlet indignation to colourless redemption. It takes a big man to admit he\u2019s wrong \u2014 or in this case, a smaller one. As for Feige, whose name means cowardly in German, he will need to screw his courage and return with something bolder if the coming Phase Six of Marvel is truly going to offer a Brave New World.\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606In UK cinemas from February 14 and US cinemas now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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