Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Harrison Ford eventually turns into a giant red Hulk and tears up the White House, and even that can’t wake this movie up. Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson carries the shield now, without any super serum, and President Thaddeus Ross wants him to put the Avengers back together. Then a summit about adamantium from Celestial Island goes sideways when a song called "Mr. Blue" plays and several men, Isaiah Bradley among them, turn on Ross and his guests. Sam spends the rest untangling who’s behind it, and when the villain finally shows his face, the makeup gets bigger laughs than the jokes. Mackie and Ford are good and deserve better lines. Everything else feels stitched together: nods to other Marvel projects, a cherry blossom moment that thuds, effects that look rushed. It holds a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes and made $415.1 million worldwide on a reported $180M. A 3.9 because two good actors can’t fix a messy script. $873 says you hear "Mr. Blue" on an oldies station and change the station faster than you ever have.

What works: Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford both bring real conviction, and Ford gives Ross a weary gravity the material barely earns.

What doesn’t: The script is clunky, the effects look cheap for a reported $180M movie, and the plot assumes you’ve kept up with other Marvel shows.

Who it’s for: Marvel completists who need to know what happens to Sam Wilson next, and Harrison Ford fans curious to see him go red.