While his motivation and worldview are certainly something new to the MCU, his high-tech purple armor and blue-energy powers have him looking a tad too much like Kang the Conqueror, another power-mad bad guy we just saw in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He’s easy to hate because he’s essentially animal cruelty personified. The High Evolutionary is played with a maniacal intensity by Chukwudi Iwuji, who delivers his perverted philosophy on perfection with an ice-cold brutality. Still, it cannot be overstated how a cybernetically enhanced raccoon is the emotional lynchpin of this movie–and it works! The High Evolutionary is an especially effective villain during the flashbacks. The method used to show us the flashbacks isn’t the most original, especially if you watched The Book of Boba Fett last year, plus it takes Rocket out of the action for far too long. He was created by a power-mad super-scientist known as the High Evolutionary and was subjected to horrific abuse, and it’s in a series of harrowing flashbacks that we come to a whole new understanding of Rocket, and the ever-excellent Bradley Cooper peels back the layers of this gruff raccoon with a tender performance. It turns out there was a good reason Rocket never shared much about his past.
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