Alex Garland films often flirt with greatness… and come up frustratingly short. Ex Machina? Too sterile. Annihilation? Plot, please. Men? Come on, that ectoplasm!
Action thriller Civil War, however, brings him all guns blazing to within a whisker of that top table beside the greats – even if viewers will need to make peace with a film called Civil War not really being about civil war.
