Captain America: Brave New World

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

The fourth-wall-adjacent question of what kind of movie this wants to be sits at the heart of most negative reviews: critics found the political allegory half-baked, the narrative stuffed with undigested MCU connective tissue, and the CGI — particularly in the White House sequence — genuinely distracting. Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford drew consistent praise, but even admirers of Ford noted that the film leans on him to compensate for a script that gives its new Captain America almost nothing to carry emotionally. A small minority found it a competent, grounded political thriller by recent MCU standards; the majority called it a slop machine running on corporate timidity.