Brave New World is a perfect example of studio math gone wrong. On paper, the 35th MCU entry should be a sure-fire winner. For a little bit of spice, give a dash of heralded character actors Giancarlo Esposito and Tim Blake Nelson.

In the last 10 years, we’ve seen the veteran counsellor marked as a fugitive, imprisoned on The Raft, snapped out of existence, passed over as the new Captain America (despite Steve Rogers’ wishes) and,

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