The first reactions to Captain America: Brave New World have dropped, and they're pretty mixed on the Marvel Phase 5 movie. Some have been calling it a return to form for the MCU, while others say the cast deserve better.

After making his debut in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Mackie has portrayed Sam Wilson in eight Marvel projects over the past decade. In many of them, Mackie's Wilson also goes by the superhero pseudonym Falcon, the *ahem* wingman of Chris Evans' Steve Rogers, aka the original Captain America.

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,