Here's our complete ranking of the MCU movies as Marvel's Phase 5 continues in earnest. Over the course of 33 movies, Marvel Studios has become the biggest force in Hollywood, earning $29.6 billion at the global box office in little over a decade and revolutionizing how studios approach blockbuster franchises. And while there's a litany of reasons why, one of the most fundamental is that their films are, for the most part, really good.
Release Date May 2, 2008 Director Jon Favreau Cast Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Clark Gregg, Paul Bettany Runtime 126 minutes All of Phase 1 displays signs of a studio struggling to find its edge, but nowhere do you feel the strain of the shared universe as much as with Iron Man 2.
Its relation of the past is a particular problem. Alan Taylor took the broody, high-contrast style of Kenneth Branagh's original and replaced it with clean CGI, expanding Asgard in a superficial way that comes across as cheap Star Wars; and if that's what it was going for, the inconsistent story flow, set blocking and editing are more Attack of the Clones than The Empire Strikes Back.
There's too much reliance on CG, the scale is too large and surprisingly hollow at the same time, all sense of fun evaporating as it becomes clear that Ant-Man has once again been used as a stepping stone for when the big boys will come back to hoover up all the glory. Despite its good parts, it's destined to not be remembered.
Release Date July 6, 2018 Director Peyton Reed Cast Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Evangeline Lilly, David Dastmalchian, Judy Greer, Randall Park, Michael Douglas, Paul Rudd, Hannah John-Kamen, Michael Pena, Bobby Cannavale Runtime 118 Minutes Ant-Man and the Wasp is the Marvel movie everybody who dislikes the MCU sight-unseen thinks Marvel movies are.
It's easy to nitpick the narrative but that's only because the filmmaking is overall considerably weaker. While it's common to claim this is better directed than The Avengers, that's only on a superficial level; the original looks a little too like a TV show at points, sure, but its sequel doesn't offer much more beyond a more experienced CGI team with its considerably weaker script.
It's especially disappointing for Johannson given the film plays it as Nat's final outing; while Black Widow is the lead, her character exists in timeline-mandated stasis allowing little real development. There are few dangling threads for her remaining, but neither are new layers uncovered. Even the future prospect of the memorable supporting additions - Florence Pugh's Yelena and David Harbour's Alexei - is weakened by neither feeling as prominent as they should.
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