Anthony Mackie stars in a not surprising Marvel film with CGI issues and an underwhelming villain, but Harrison Ford shines as the U.S. President.

“This isn’t an instruction manual for the current president,” he said. “It’s simply a story about a group of people in tight suits who can fly, as part of the wonderful imagination that the Marvel Cinematic Universe provides. It’s primarily an escape from reality.”

The result is one of the most tepid, uninspiring and frankly boring installments in the history of Marvel Studios. A bad script, uninspired acting and lackluster action sequences will do little to quell those wondering if Marvel will ever find its way again.

It's been 11 years since "Captain America: The Winter Solder" came out. Eleven years ago, Marvel and Disney released a film about Nazis taking over the American government. That story aged unpleasantly well.

Brave New World” is, by official count, the 35th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that began in 2008 with “Iron Man.” It’s also the fifth in the series of interconnected storylines known as MCU’s Phase 5,

Brave New World," which Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy calls a highly processed, empty calorie, regret-later candy of a movie.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe returns to its regularly scheduled programming after taking a year off to recover from the loss of the next big bad villain and a line of releases that lacked the coherence,