Steve Rogers continues his journey as the super-powered American soldier who's grasping to find his place in a modern world after being frozen in ice since WWII with this Marvel Studios sequel. Chris Evans returns to star, with Community director/producers Joe and Anthony Russo helming. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
Director: Joe
Russo, Anthony Russo
Cast: Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Samuel
L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson
Release Date: Apr
04, 2014
Rated: PG-13 for Gunplay, Action throughout and
Intense Sequences of Violence
Runtime: 2 hr. 8 min.
Genres: Action/Adventure
Review:
Captain America:
The Winter Soldier is one of Marvel’s best scripted stories thus far. That’s not to say it doesn’t have some issues
but it’s a solid attempt at trying to dig a bit deeper into some complex issues
with a complicated villain. It’s rather
blunt if earnest about it’s intentions.
If this all makes it sound rather dour well it is at time occasionally
turning into a plodding and somewhat joyless experience that could have been
trimmed by a good 15 to 20 minutes.
Personally, I might have been more impressed if I hadn’t seen a similar
story line in a certain DC animated series I was fond of but I digress. The film, when it hits its mark, delivers
some excellent action set pieces and superhero action. Evans does his best to bring some deeper
layers to the Captain and he pulls it off for the most part. Scarlett Johansson has a larger part which
doesn’t require her to runaround in her catsuit and the film’s better for it as
she displays some solid chemistry with Evans.
Newcomers Anthony Mackie and Robert Redford bring varying degrees of
excitement to the proceedings. Mackie is
obviously having a blast throughout while Redford’s name
brings some gravitas to the whole thing but he seemed as disinterested as can
be. Sebastian Stan’s Winter Solider is
in the movie title but his screen time is surprisingly small in the grand
scheme of things. It’s a game changing
film that does kind of blows up a lot of the establishment from the Marvel
universe so it’ll be interesting to see where they from here, hopefully they’ll
remember bring a bit more fun.
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ReplyDeleteDan, I actually kind of liked this approach of toning down the fun factor, felt it was, at times, too much in Avengers. Between totally agree on the script part!
ReplyDeleteFor the story it made sense that it was so serious.
Deletewow high praise. definitely gonna check this out.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty nice to see them going to headier material so there's plenty to enjoy.
DeleteI've seen the first one and enjoyed it because it was surprisingly immensely amusing, bit the trailers for the sequel all looked so extremely serious, I decided to skip.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm probably the lone decenter but it's not nearly as fun as the first film, it's overly serious too a fault if you ask me.
DeleteIs the DC animated series you are referring Justice League?
ReplyDelete-James
James, yes the story line reminded me a lot of the Cadmus storyline from the 2nd to last season of Justice League.
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