Nope. I don't buy. How do they even know for sure Bucky planted the bomb? Because he was seen fleeing the scene? That doesn't make sense to me.

If the technology exists that can to mold a disguise that can fool facial recognition software, than you can see how that throws ALL crime suspects into doubt from visual evidence alone - especially for high profile cases. But nobody thinks it can be anyone else but Bucky for some reason. Its not like Zemo's disguise was a tech exclusive to him.

And there's no need to escalate the situation. If Tony was going to hunt down Bucky over the video, than he would have done it and drawn Cap into the fight straight away. There was no need to keep switching faces with that weird ass convuluted plot to frame Bucky for something when the main evidence is already all there.

Note that it all boiled down in the end to "he killed my mum".

Zemo's not happy that the Avengers supposedly killed his family even though its obviously Ultron who did it (although it can be said that Stark created Ultron), so he kills a whole bunch of other innocent uninvolved civilians just so he can execute his revenge and get the Avengers to fight each other? Yeah...no...sorry...very stupid idea simply because there's so many ways it could have failed.

And no...the Superhero Registration Act wasn't a good idea in the comics as it was. There's a reason why the Civil War plotline isn't highly regarded in the Marvel Comicverse. Mixing that up with Baron Zemo's convulated revenge doesn't improve the situation. Its just ends up being dumber plot-wise.

Its not a series of Batman gambits. Zemo's plan relied on so many things happening that are outside his control yet it all somehow worked out in his favor. For example, he had to hope that Cap and Tony will disagree on the accords, or he would have just bombed the building for no good reason at all.

And than he has to hope that Tony is the one that gets to Bucky, because hey...its not like the special forces of other countries won't be chasing the bomb suspect down at all. If someone else got to Bucky before Tony, than the plan to make them fight each other goes right out the window instead of escalating it. That guy with the machine gun in the heli could have mown down Bucky except Black Panther got in the way with his Vanadium Suit.

Batman Gambit indeed.