Marvel needed to let Sam cook in a movie or two before this tbh. The shift from Steve to Sam was too jarring and it still feels like Sam is some third-stringer instead of Captain fukking America.
It’s clear what happened.
Falcon and The Winter Soldier wasn’t received that well so they decided to make this movie from an unused Hulk 2 script.
If you didn’t watch The Disney + show which many people didn’t you will be lost. This movie does a bad job of establishing Sam’s supporting cast which get sidelined for Hulk characters.
Falcon and The Winter Soldier should have been a movie, the first Sam Captain America movie NOT a TV show



But that’s Falcon he’s a Boy Scout