"Captain America: Brave New World" is a follow-up to Disney+'s Falcon & The Winter Soldier from a couple of years back, and, yes, Sebastian Stan appears briefly as Bucky Barnes, aka Winter Soldier, but is not central to the plot.
And, the plot itself resolves threads from 2008's "The Incredible Hulk", with Tim Blake Nelson & Liv Tyler returning from that film. The reason 16 years is referenced in the script is because perhaps it was meant to be released last year, but was held to February of this year before released to Disney+ for streaming.
Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (Harrison Ford) has ascended to the presidency, but unlike a certain media whore currently in the real world's White House, Ross is all about redeeming himself for past career mistakes, which left estranged from daughter Betty (Tyler, who also appears in a cameo). And while Ross had been Lt. Girard to Hulk's Dr. Kimble, an even more imposing adversary of the Hulk, Sam Sterns, aka The Leader (though not named as such in the film), emerges. The prosthetics used on Nelson recall a redesign of Sterns by Todd McFarlane during his run on the Hulk comic back in the day.
However, Sterns is more of a Mad Thinker than a Leader, using mind control and babbling about numerical probabilities, more in line as well with DC's Thinker for comparison's sake.
Check the trailer to see how Ford morphed into being the oldest actor to ever play a monster character....
Rating: B-.
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