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We don’t deserve Harrison Ford.

As a national treasure responsible for two of the most emblematic cinema roles of all time, he could easily rest on his laurels. But the 82 -year -old man has been working at a feverish pace lately, finding new sandboxes to play. Marvel cinematographic universe In Captain America: Brave New World.

The film is ostensibly Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) Film, his first moment big screen to recover the shield and the character of Cap for himself. But Ford, taking over William Hurt As Thaddeus Ross is the main attraction.

From the first moments, it is clear that it is another Thaddeus Ross. Not in the obvious literal sense, but due to the fact that the first minutes of the film reintroduce us to the notion of his daughter, Betty (Liv Tyler), and her deep desire to reconnect with her and correct her wrongs. What a world we live in a film full of super soldiers, celestial islands and gamma shelves, the most incredible part is an American president with empathy, a sense of responsibility for his actions and a capacity for change.

While Ross takes office, he tries to negotiate a treaty with several nations to share Adamantium’s precious resource in the heart of the celestial island (which Gemma Chan SERSI created in Eternal). Meanwhile, Cap and his new faithful acolyte, Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), Chasse Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito) and a stolen vessel of Adamantium. Sidewinder is a red herring (and frankly, a waste of Talent of Esposito to portray contemptible bad guys).

All this is a configuration for a possible attempted assassination on the life of Ross, led by another former Captain America, Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumble), under mental control. Sam tries to define his version of Captain America, while fighting to exempt his friend, while while Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) Take the strings of the shadows – with the ultimate goal of taking revenge on Ross for broken promises. There is also Ross security advisor, Ruth Bat-Seraph (Shira Haas)An ex-Widow who quickly signed the team of Sam and Joaquin.

If it seems a bit complicated, heavy in exposure and mixed, well, it is because it is. It is never an excellent sign when a scenario has five credited writers, as Brave New World do. We can see the fascinated history in real time while writing works to try to associate all its convoluted pieces together. This feeling of papier The narration is only amplified by the return of the characters of Nelson and Tyler of the 2008 The incredible Hulk, A film that the MCU tends to ignore quietly. It is as if the Marvel team put a lot of points of the plot and characters in a hat, shook it and went with everything they came out.

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Always, Brave New World Works much better than many other Marvel films. Director Julius Onah (Cloverfield’s paradox) Infuse the procedure with a quick vitality that maintains the rapid rhythm (at an hour and 58 minutes, it is only 10 minutes more than the shortest film in Marvel, Wonders). The action sequences are exciting, if not revealing, or approach high points of the franchise (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, You will always be famous).

But overall, Ford raises the film. He brings an inherent gravity with him (he just feels to see him in an Air Force One jacket; you do it half expressing to tell Sam Wilson to leave his plane). But he also brings a sparkle in his eyes and a joyful warmth that shines through the Bellicist military man obsessed with his own heritage.

Ford acts the hell of his scenes, in particular his quieter where he reflects on his mortality and counts with the errors he made along the way. With its characteristic approach to self-depreciation and ironic, it rejected his work in the film as “being an idiot for money” During the comic strip in San Diego last summer. These comments mainly underestimated its performance. Ford commands any scene in which he is with burnt immobility, but he also brings compassion to Ross, the transforming of a military shill into a character that is easy to delight.

It is so good in the role that it is a real shame that Marvel has chosen to look into the transformation of Ford into red hulk as a main marketing angle. The node of the film lies in Ross’ attempts to control his frustrations and anger, and the potential monster that waits to free himself from the inside. Knowing from the start that we are going to a force test with the Red Hulk slightly reduces the impact of this plot point. But it is a testimony of the intuitive and skillful performance of Ford that the moment always feels shocking when he finally comes (then we get the joy of seeing the fascinating performance he mainly gives through his expressive eyes like the red hulk transformed).

At one point, another character, whose name we will not spoil, reassures Sam about the pressure of filling Steve Rogers shoes, saying: “You are a human being; You do your best. Steve gave them something in what to believe, you give them something to aspire. »»

In many ways, the same thing could be said for Ford and his underestimated gifts as an actor (Oh, of course, he has long been a movie star, but his real gifts as an actor are terribly terribly unknown). What makes his Ross so convincing – and allows the film to hang on to the whole – is the abundant humanity of Ford. Thaddeus Ross is not a supervillain; It is not even a particularly morally bankrupt politician. He is just a man who tries to do his best for his daughter and the country he loves.

At the base, Brave New World is a film on the inheritance – how to get into the one who yawns in front of you, how to count with the one that has been imposed on you and how to choose to change the things that will define you.

In the return of Isaiah Bradley and Sam’s expression of his fears of never being enough, there is an attempt to dig into the spectrum of the race and the additional pressures which he gives to the concept of inheritance. There is a rich and convincing film in this line of thought which is never fully explored. In the midst of the usual marvel experts of the visual effects, explosions and combat sequences, there are nuggets of a deeper cultural reflection.

So we hope that this is only the beginning of this aspect of the history of Sam. Because Courageous world The heritage will always belong to Harrison Ford. Grade: B