The Captain America: Brave New World Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores are currently lower than any of the Chris Evans Captain America movies.
The review embargo for Marvel‘s Captain America: Brave New World, also known as Captain America 4, has now lifted. At the time of this article’s publication, the film has a 48 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes with 66 reviews and a 45 score on Metacritic.
In comparison, 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger has an 80 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and a 66 on Metacritic, while 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier has 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 70 on Metacritic. Captain America: Civil War also has a 90 percent Rotten Tomatoes Score, while its Metacritic score sits at 75.
“Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America,” the synopsis for the movie reads. “After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.”
What are critics saying about Captain America: Brave New World?
IndieWire’s David Ehrlich said the movie is “far too preoccupied with its own [MCU] past to deliver any real excitement in the present — let alone have any real hope of stoking enthusiasm for the future.” He also said the movie is “full of baffling decisions, none of them are more bizarre or fundamental than the decision to reboot the Avengers by returning to the 2008 boondoggle where Marvel tried to boot them up in the first place — only to repeat so many of the same mistakes on a much larger scale.”
The Wrap’s William Bibbiani called Captain America 4 a “shamelessly pointless motion picture, one that stumbles into powerful symbolism but uses those symbols to say as little as possible.”
Variety’s Owen Gleiberman was more positive about the movie, saying that it “works well enough as a vigorous, prosaic, more-stand-alone-than-not adventure that balances shield-bashing, sky-zipping action with the elements of a gritty geopolitical thriller.”
Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World releases in United States theaters on February 14, 2025, as part of Phase Five of the MCU.
Originally reported by Brandon Schreur on SuperHeroHype.
