“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.”

In his first big-screen appearance as Captain America, Anthony Mackie is trapped in an incomprehensible mess designed to tie up loose ends.

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