April 16, 2014

 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a great film to tide Marvel fans over until the upcoming summer films. While the plot had some twists and turns, and was sometimes hard to follow, the movie itself was pretty decent and had great fight scenes.

 

It’s two years after the big battle in New York (from Avengers), and Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) AKA Captain America is living in DC and working for SHIELD. During a mission with Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) AKA Black Widow, Rogers finds out she has a different task than he does, which is to secure SHIELD agents taken hostage by pirates. Frustrated, Rogers brings this up to Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who shows him a secret project called Insight, which is three helicarriers that link to spy satellites that will essentially help track danger.

 

When Fury tries to access the data that Romanoff got on the mission, he can’t, raising lots of red flags. While he tries to connect with agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), he is attacked by assassin Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). He gets away and heads to Rogers’ apartment. He tells him that no one can be trusted and SHIELD is compromised, right before he’s killed. Rogers is very conflicted and doesn’t know who to trust, especially after senior SHIELD official Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) tries to get him to reveal what information Fury had. When he refuses, Pierce declares Rogers a fugitive and tries to have him killed.

 

On the run now, he teams up with Romanoff, who can be trusted. Together they find out that some SHIELD agents have been operating and supporting Hydra after WWII. Rogers and Romanoff then team up with former pararescueman Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) AKA Falcon to try and take down the Hydra moles in SHIELD. There is a big fight scene in the streets between the three, Hydra agents and the Winter Soldier. It is then that Rogers realizes the Winter Solider is actually his former childhood friend Bucky Barnes. However, Barnes doesn’t recognize him. The trio get captured and Romanoff is hurt, but Hill has infiltrated the SHIELD agents to rescue them. She brings them to a bunker, where Fury is actually alive. They all devise a plan to take down the Hydra supporters, including Pierce. They foil the plan, but realize that SHIELD is now in disarray, so the good members must try to blend in, while Fury heads off to Europe to track down more Hydra supporters. Meanwhile Rogers and Wilson head off to track down the Winter Soldier.

 

There’s a few more scenes in the credits, so stick around.

 

There was a lot of action and a lot of plot to follow. However, it was a very enjoyable film. Evans and Johansson are also very easy on the eyes, so males and females alike can enjoy all aspects of this film. I probably wouldn’t say it was better than the first, but I will say that it’s about the same. And I loved the first one.