Anthony's movie review: Captain America Civil War

Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to my movie review. Well, im going back to Marvel films. Specifically, Marvel Cinematic Universe, like i said last year, i am a big fan of it, it has likable characters and great action movies.

But this time, this one is going to a brawl between the members of The Avengers. Which is the movie that il review it, because i expecting to see a great superheroes battle. It was directed by the Russo brothers (Anthony and Joe who also did with Winter Soldier.), produced by Kevin Fiege and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

So, can this movie will be a great Royal Rumble, or is it gonna be disappointed as Batman V Superman?

Lets find out.

The story
Ever since The Avengers is in the mission to fight the bad guys, but things is going down of hill. After Scarlet Witch accidentally threw Crossbones (aka Brock Rumlow) with her telekinetic power, he blew next to a monument of Wakandan, causing to kill the workers and it got controversial news. Because of that, Thaddeus Ross a man who charge in fictional U.S. Secretary of State (I say fictional, because in reality, it was charged by John Kerry.) is informing that United Nation is going to control The Avengers that its either accept or retire them. Tony Stark is support them after a many times that he and the members of The Avengers that they cause a disaster in various countries. But Steve Rogers refused it, because he wants his team to be safe from UN. So The Avengers was separated for the ultimate combat from the protection of politics.
As you may not know, it was based on the comic with a same name that was originally written by Mark Millar. Despite the same concept, it also add a subplot that was involve with Bucky Barnes (aka The Winter Soldier) who killed someone who got the serum and Bucky has to deal with his nemesis, a Slovakian terrorist name Helmut Zemo.
The story itself is impressive and i gotta say, it has a better truth than Batman V Superman. You heard that DC universe, Marvel did it right! Despite the similarity, its much more fun with 5 vs 5 or six heroes.

The production
Im not sure to say, the production is always great for MCU. It has a great action scenes and even a cool looking costumes. For example, for Vision, it was done with motion capture, because of his skin colors of texture and few other like the actors where jumping around behind the blue screen if you seen it on Facebook, even though it has a good stunt scene with a string or some its just a low jump. ^^; Some that i was surprised like Tony Stark's wrist armor when he fight Bucky or even a size of Ant-man that it find it surprisingly cool. But the only problem is that some scene is almost spoiling like War Machine has been blast down and almost die, i mean come on, don't spoiled it that many people thinks that he's dead. However, they said that this is the last Captain America standalone movies with trilogy, although they still have a plan for next movies with him in Infinite War part 1 and 2.
The production is always great like before, but they could've avoid some spoiler scene in the trailer.

The characters
Im pretty sure you're familiar with all these characters.

First there's Captain America aka Steve Rogers (Played by Chris Evans.). Even though im not a fan of him, but he's a great hero. He has super strength, overly protective with powerful shield which he can see faster for some reason... ^^; Even though i never seen two previous Captain America movies, but hey, he's interesting that Chris did a great job.

Next there's Iron Man aka Tony Stark (Played by Robert Downey Jr.), he's my personal fav hero in Marvel Universe, he's genius with technology and he has a sense of humor thanks to Downey's role. I mean he's like a show stealer to enjoy the movie. But in this movie, he's a main antagonist that he's a tyrant of UN like in the comic, but im ok for that to follow the story. Robert Downey, you're always did a great job for his role. Oh btw, he's still going his role in the forth Iron Man, thats a bonus. :)

Then there's Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff (Played by Scarlett Johansson), she's also my fav hero in the movie that not only she's beautiful, but she's pretty badass with agility and her gadgets since she worked as a spy and a former of  S.H.I.E.L.D.. Even though i still want her own standalone movie... But meh, at least Johansson has always a great role.

Next is Bucky Barnes aka Winter Soldier (played Sebastian Stan). Like Steve Rogers, i never seen his previous films, but i find him pretty badass and outright brutal, despite that he's an anti-hero and a friend with Steve Rogers. Even though he was disappeared before, until he returned with a powerful robot arm on his left.

There a few other heroes like Hawkeye (played by Jeremy Renner), Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen) Ant-Man (The one that i mentioned before that he was played by Paul Rudd.), Falcon (another one that i mentioned before that he was played by Anthony Mackie), War Machine (played by Don Cheadle) and Vision (played by Paul Bettany). But they also brought newcomers like Black Panther and of course, Spider-man.

For Black Panther aka T'Challa (played Chadwick Boseman), i find him an interesting character, despite he's supposed to be a character with sympathy since he wanted to save his father T'Chaka. But he could've introducing in his own movie than Civil War, but i guess im ok for that, il wait for his own movie.

For Spider-man aka Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland), Spider-man is the character it has been debated for the best role, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland. I remembered Tobey's role that i though he had a great role when i was young. Looking back as i grew up, he always have a great role. As for Andrew, he find him an interesting role since he played "The amazing Spider-man", which he almost steal the show. But now we have Tom Holland, despite he's young with 19 year old, but i think he did a great job for his role, so i can't wait to see his own movie in MCU of "Spider-Man Homecoming".

Finally there's another antagonist in the movie, Helmut Zemo, played by...  Daniel Bruhl? A same guy who played Niki Lauda from Rush? Well, i guess this is the second time i mention him. Although he's cool and did a great job, but the only disappointed part of him is that he doesn't wear his signature costume like his mask in the comic, it didn't happen until the future films of MCU.

And if you're wondering about Stan Lee's cameo, he's in the movie, because...  We love Stan Lee. ^^

And now for my final opinion of the film.
Overall, Captain America Civil War is impressive film with a Royal Rumble superheroes with interesting story, likable characters as always and the production is great and as always, it has a fun sense of humor. Even though some that was disappointing like the absent of Zemo's mask and some scene in trailer is almost spoiling. And boy, this movie is been over two in half hours like Batman V Superman. If you're a fan of Marvel or a fan of superheroes battle Royal, this one is for you. Its much more better than Batman V Superman.

Since im a fan of Marvel, i give this movie a 9/10.

So this ends my review, if you have your opinion or any suggestions, let me know on the comment bellow.


Thanks for reading and im Anthony, signing out. ;)

Anthony's game review: Doom 2016

Warning: The following review contains violent and disturbing content. And its also focus on PS4 (Which i have one). Readers description advised.



Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back to game review.

We played a lot of FPS games in our times, Call of Duty, Halo, Serious Sam, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and so on. But there's one FPS game that was considered to be a goriest game ever made, that is Doom.

Doom is an early example of ultra-violent FPS game that was made by id software with John Romero back in 1993. Its one of the most popular and controversial game in history that it has a sequel one year like with Doom 2 and Doom 3 for 10 years later.

I remembered play Doom 2 on XBOX 360, it was pretty fun, even though it was hard to play, even though i'd rather play a PC version. And of course, it was announced that there's a development of Doom 4. However, it has a hell development for the story, the game mechanic and the publisher, until they start over to make it as a reboot in 2013. I was kinda disappointed, but il find out about the reboot, which it will be in our current gen like XBOX One, PS4 and PC.

And now the game finally came out that i finally bought it to gave a shoot.

So, can this game will be a good reboot for the first Doom, or is it gonna be disappointing as 343's Halo or Destiny?

Lets find out.

I never noticed that the game came out on Beta with multiplayer like Star Wars Battlefront EA or even Overwatch. But i heard that the Beta version wasn't as good because it feels like id version of Halo, but i've never try it.

Anyway, the gameplay itself is not much to say, its just a FPS game. Unlike some games that you carry two weapons only, you can carry every weapons like the original did. You start using a pistol, which surprisingly it was unlimited of ammo, which it works well, until it became useless at later that you pick up a shotgun, a heavy rifle and even a good'ol Chainsaw. But the chainsaw is limited of fuel which is shame, i guess its because they make it like in real life. Speaking of melee, you can even do a melee attack, if you make your enemy being stopped and weak, you can do a fatality melee. Its bloody and cool, but it might be old if you used it a lot. But it helps that give you an ammo and extra health. Like the original, you cannot reload your weapon to keep you magazines, instead you need to find more ammos to kill them. The weapons are interesting, even though i haven't get them at later. And before you ask, yes, the BFG 9000 is in the game, but i won't tell where it is. The game is not only a FPS, but also a First-person platform, which is little bit hard to challenge to jump and climbing, but hey, at least its better than Duke Nukem Forever.

The enemy design looks cool and much more creepier than before, especially with Revenant, it looks pretty scary that it will hunt you dream. The AI was good to look at, but it can be annoying, like when i try to kill those Imps, they just run away like a cowards. Maybe its because they want to find the place to climbing. And yes, these Imps actually climbing. Not to mention some enemy is big that it takes a big hits, if you wanna use a rocket launcher, a super shotgun, a plasma rifle or even a BFG 9000.

Speaking of climbing, the control is good, but a bit slippery from a camera (In my opinion when i played). Like any games, you can hold a trigger button to choose your weapons. Except for the chainsaw, you pick it up by pressing a button (like square for PS4), you can also use a side weapon like a frag grenade to the left button trigger (L1), even though its unlimited, but its recharging for some reason. You can press a pad of PS4, it shows a map, the upgrade of weapons, upgrade of special armor and even some description of weapons, Union Aerospace Corporation's stuff, monsters and more. There's also a rune, but i don't care, because most of them are hard to get a bonus.

As for the story, i was expecting to be like the original Doom or Doom 2, but it was completely different, but a bit like Doom 3. The plot is that you play as a Doom Marine (Rather than Doomguy for the name) who breaks free from the prison with his strength, which it appears that everyone zombi-- I mean these possesseds who's try to kill you. It turns out that the portal of hell was opened by an evil female worker name Olivia Pierce who refused to work with Dr Samuel Hayden for a research. Its up to you have to save UAC of Mars to close the portal and stop her.
I was a bit disappointed for the story, because it feels cliche about a worker who betrayed a boss for peace and turning into a villain to taking over the world. I prefer the first story where you have to fight them from their hellish threats.

Aside for a cool monsters designs, but the graphics is the weakest in the game, it feels like it was from Doom 3 with a slightly better. Which some texture of background is blurry and sometimes in hell if you're nearly finish level it gets all red. I mean, could you tone down of red background? But sometimes, the game has a glitches like when i fought those Imps, one of them is going on the floor of UAC or even when i fought Mancubus with my rocket launcher, he mouth is wide open and never move. But some others that it made me scared a bit like my camera went almost out of the world. They could've delayed the project to fix some parts in the game

There a few others like Snapmap, its an in-map game that it came up from Escalation Studios with their game called Severity, but it got cancelled due to a lack of publishers. Anyway, i find it an interesting idea, you can create your own map of multiplayer online or local game, nice touch. Finally there's multiplayer, its not much to say, it has a matches like "Deathmatch", domination, and others. Like before, it feels like Halo's online multiplayer matches a bit.

Overall, the game is above average, great gameplay, the enemies are cool and scary, the music is impressive and the weapons are great to be back, unless there's a new one that i was like "Meh, i never heard of.". Even though the story could've been creative, the graphics feels little bit dated, the glory kills are repetitive and some bonus like Runes is not my kind. But i have no idea why this game was cost $80 for a slightly disappointed game, it should be worth of $40, $50 or $60. Anything than 80 dollars, and the season pass is even worse, its also not worth of price like $55, it could've just make it to $20. I mean Cmon Bathesda, there's no reason to release this game with expensive price with combining together of $130 (A game with a season pass), that price is only belongs to a monopolized company like EA. I hate what they do that... But for some reason Bathesda felt embarrassed of a negative review that they want silence if the websites reviewers like IGN or Destructoid have a copy. Talk about a cowardly behavior, you need to accept the criticism  that the game has a problem like need to fix it with a patches.

Now i would've give an 8 for the rating, but i decided to tone down a bit with my official rating of 7/10.
Even though its nice to bring back, but not as fresher than the original Doom. Lets hope id will make a improvement sequel to have a better story and better graphics to learn their lesson.

So this ends of my review, if you have your opinion or suggestions, let me know on the comments bellow.

Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out. ;)