Captain America The First Avenger
Compared to Captain America the First Avenger, winter solider makes the first movie look like an issue #0. The movie, after the first five minutes kicks off with amazing stunts and all out action and does not stop throughout the entire movie until the very end. In conjunction with other elements this movie so far just might be the ‘Best’ Marvel film so far.
The level winter solider goes to, sets a pretty high admirable
standard for the rest of the movies this year, kicking our summer off with a
Bang!
Captain America
Captain America Winter Soldier is a
film based off the iconic comic book character, captain America. The movie
itself serves as a sequel to the first one, The First Avenger in 2011. In the
Winter Soldier We see captain America, played by (Chris Evans) or maybe better
known as his true identity, Steve Rodgers as he attempt to live in the modern
world after being frozen for 70 years.
What we really see is Captain
America who tries to fit in the modern world by working with SHIELD, but SHIELD
has some dark secrets of its own which come to the surface forming the plot we
see throughout the film.
The Winter soldier comes fully prepared with
an amazing set of cast members and rich characters. Samuel L. Jackson
as Nick Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Anthony Mackie as Falcon,
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, cobie smulders from How I met your mother and
the Avengers as Maria Hill and Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce.
The 'Marvel' Theme
The movie itself starts out really light,
making it appoint not too highlight anything to monumental until the first few
minutes of the film. When the movie does make its turn, it does so in a very
high paced way, speeding up faster and getting better as it goes along, just
like the rest of the movie. The action is well paced, humorous and yet dark at
times.
The movie is able to make light of
the deaths we do see, almost acting as if it’s not happening. Black Widow is
able to kill potentially twenty men in twenty seconds and not feel a single bit
emotion of remorse. I guess being an ex KGB spy does that to you.
That in itself proves that the movie has both dark and light
featured tones that are balanced and blended pretty well, enough to not make
the audience feel too bad.
Its marvel, they’re kind of good for it as we usually see in
past movies like; Thor and Iron man.
The ‘marvel’ theme does very well and good in this film in many
ways that it surpasses the first one. The first Avenger seems like a very flat
movie with little bright tone but right away you can see that the winter
soldier will have its moments of brightness, with a mixture of light humor.
Those uplifting sequences are the scenes that leave a little
bit of sunshine in your soul, and draw those character in close, just before
its sequences that rip you away from everything you thought you knew and
forcing you to see something else entirely and those are also those moments
that leave you on the brink of tears, forcing you to grip your seat so hard
just so your heart doesn’t beat itself right out of your chest.
The Plot & The Adversary
The plot of the movie seems to be simple to catch on and
thickens as it goes, leaving you to wonder what the plot really is.
From that, I now know what they mean when they said the
movie was going to have a ‘political’ feel. The idea may or may not have
something to do with a weapon of mass destruction, but it is better than the
flat and dry one way stories that are always being rehashed.
Marvel included.
It might even just sum up all marvel movies and comic books around the world
along with every writers block anyone is currently having.
Evil villain + mass weapon of destruction = wipe out entire race or planet because I had a bad childhood.
Ergo, the plot of Captain America The first Avenger and The
Winter Soldier, sorry but its more or less true.
With that having been said I think that’s a reason this
movie is so amazing. The film is not just about one guy and an army it has its
multiple view points and story threads intersecting into this one movie, a lot of
them having to deal with The First Avenger which it helps lend itself to come
full circle. It is not one of those movies that leaves you with the feeling that
the first one never happened, it does the complete opposite. It may have been
70 or so years ago, but the events from WWII are trudging themselves into the
present time and creating all this disorder and chaos, so much that you could
almost say that Captain Americas true enemy (without giving away any spoilers),
is almost time or maybe his past coming back to haunt him and the rest of the
world.
Time can be a great and superior adversary; a greater adversary
though just might be your best friend as an enemy. Combine best friend out of
time, and he just might be the toughest opponent you’ve ever had to face. Captain
America doesn’t just have to fight his opponent with brute force and physical, that’s
if he is able to face his opponent at all.
Overall
Again. Right when you think you know whats going to happen the film
spins everything around leaving you wondering where you are. The winter soldier
is literally like a roller coaster ride; now just imagine riding one blind. You
don’t know what’s coming and what is going, which I might say definitely adds
to the fun factor. Seeing it again I might not say or experience the same thing
again but I do know that every single scene kept me begging for more.
“Cut off the head of one and two more will take its place”
The writing and plot of the movie is very well paced never
usually going off and doing little of what it has to, to convey what it thinks
are important. Just when I think I find a flaw in character or plot the film
seemed to always have an answer for me therefore leaving me with nothing to
complain about.
The acting in the film is very superb especially on Chris
Evans and Sebastian Stan’s roles. Their roles throughout the movie seem the
heaviest of burdens to carry, with more than a few deeply emotional scenes the
two carry the movie beautifully.
With such an array of action, emotion and a story plot that
holds its own with the film editing that is done so rightfully that you can’t
help but feel like you’ve just watched the best movie ever its hard to find a flaw that ruins it or is enough to dock it.
( I guess that makes me a pretty bad critic.)
In Closing
With The Winter Soldier coming out so early just before May
I do believe it sets a very high precedence for all other movies, releasing this summer; Godzilla, Amazing Spider-man 2, and X men days of futures past. Even including
movies like Guardians Of The Galaxy and Avengers Age Of Ultron to attempt to top such a massive Marvel film like this one. It'll be very hard to accomplish.
If this is the beginning of what only about to come, then
let them come 2014. I can’t wait!
Overall I don’t want to give the movie a perfect score, even
though it rightfully deserves one, I give the movie a score of
9.5 / 10
Dont forget to watch Captain America The Winter Soldier in theaters. Hopefully near you.
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