Captain America: Brave New World
bit player in the Chris Evans era,
Anthony Mackie never really found definition as Falcon
Marvel gave him the wings (literally) but none of the personality and individuality
he needed to fly. Not that standing out was ever easy among such charismatic company as was the original Avengers
And yet, this is an age of second gos for the MCU. Soon enough,
Robert Downey Jr. will return, albeit in a different guise. In the here and now, Brave New World gifts Mackie the spotlight and shield-wielding mantle of Captain America. Boy, does he take to it well. This feels a promising new direction, even if the vehicle itself couldn’t really be justifiably termed ‘brave’.
Curiously, this fourth Captain America adventure proves as much a sequel to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk – that little remembered, Edward Norton fronted, MCU originator – as Evans’ last stand. It relies, too, upon the events of Chloé Zhao’s more recent, but hardly better recalled, Eternals, and 2021’s scarcely watched Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. By necessity, then, the film treads a fine line. Brave New World has not the luxury of Evans’ heyday, in which Marvel could bank on religiously up-to-date audiences, and must tailor its narrative to the totally blind, without insulting the intelligence of the hardcore
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