Civil War comic writer SLAMS Captain America 3 as ‘bleak and forgettable’
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, which starred Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man and Chris Evans’ Cap, has been slammed by Mark Millar, who wrote the comic the film is based on.
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Civil War writer Mark Millar has slammed Captain America Civil War
The Marvel extravaganza has had an incredibly successful year as the highest grossing film of 2016, making a whopping £928 million at the worldwide box office.
The film saw Evans’ Cap and Downey Jr’s Iron Man going head to head in the ultimate superhero punch up.
Despite the film’s critical and financial success, Civil War comic writer Millar, who also wrote Kick-Ass and Kingsman, shockingly left the film out of his Top 10 Movies of 2016.
Instead, he added it to a sub-section of the post on his Millar World website called Didn’t Really Dig, where he openly criticised the movie.
Millar wrote the Civil War comic book which inspired the film
Millar wrote: “Civil War had a good opening [for] twenty minutes, but then I honestly can't remember what the movie was about.
“It's interesting the Russos [directors] have a background in comedy because it's really missing in these otherwise well-made pictures and very, very missed.
“I really hope this bleakness doesn't extend into their two Avengers pictures, because what made that first Avengers work was the light as well as shade and I'll be sad if that's all lost like it was in this picture.”
While Millar didn’t like Civil War, he praised Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange placing it at No 10 on his list of best movies.
The writer wrote: “The Marvel formula is a solid one and this was a nice hark back to before they went a little too dark and serious and had lots of nice jokes and a**hole-learning-to-be-a-hero leads.”
Millar has also written comics for DC and was even more disappointed by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice than he was of Civil War.
Mark Millar felt Captain America Civil War was bleak and forgettable
He said: “I think we should just leave [Batman v Superman] alone.
“Like Suicide Squad, Warner Bros has just decided to go a certain way with these movies and their logic is that they don't want to look like Marvel films.
“It's not how I feel these characters work best and sadly my DC-obsessed kids (I'm a DC guy way more than I'm a Marvel guy) can't see their favourite characters in the cinema.”
To read Mark Millar’s full Top 10 Movies of 2016, click here.