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Iron Man got the gadgets and the wisecracks, the Hulk got the strength and the sob story and Thor got the magic hammer and the salon-quality hair. When chisel-jawed and stupidly patriotic Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) got to the front, all that was left was the naff costume and the giant frisbee.At last, balance has been restored. Captain America has been given the most interesting Avengers flick yet.And it’s the fact the character is so underpowered (relatively speaking) that makes this film refreshing.
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For once, Marvel couldn’t rely on endless mid-air CGI punch-ups, marauding aliens and mystical world-ending doodahs.With a human, earthbound superhero, the comic book behemoth probably felt they had to go in a new direction. It’s a surprising one too. They’ve parachuted him into a gritty, 1970s style political thriller.It’s a gamble that pays off. Unlike the disappointing last Thor movie, this works as a stand-alone adventure while also honouring the character's heritage.The first Captain America movie played with the character’s origins as a Second World War propaganda tool. We saw plucky, nine-stone weakling Steve Rogers being turned into a Nazi-bashing super soldier by a muscle-boosting super serum.His weedy origins gave him sympathy for the underdog and history gave him a chance to fight in a clearly defined showdown between good and evil.
But when we catch up with this embodiment of homespun American heroism, he’s only beginning to realise how far the modern world has strayed from the black and white certainties of the past.The defrosted war hero learns that his boss, SHIELD agent Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson), has been co-opted into a scheme by the intelligence agency’s oily head honcho Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford).In a secret hangar, three giant satellites are being fitted with spy technology and a dizzying array of hi-tech weaponry. Their purpose – to take out every potential terrorist before they’ve had a chance to pick up a bomb.“This isn’t freedom, this is fear,” says Rogers, suddenly appalled with the nation he shares a name with. So after teaming up with ex-KGB agent the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), he goes on a mission to “tear down” the secret service.
It’s a smart and astonishingly radical idea that chimes with current fears over US drone strikes, secrecy and CIA surveillance. But thankfully it’s not all politics – there are plenty of thrilling action scenes too.When Thor flew through the air to thump some space elves, you knew it was only going to end one way. But some of the laws of physics have been restored when Captain America and the Black Widow go toe-to-toe with the US military.For once, there’s actually a faint sense of peril.(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) We also get a feeling of the geography of the scraps too. Directors Anthony and John Russo’s reliance on great fight choreography means they don’t need to confuse us with shaky cameras or rapid cuts.And there are more signs of this sprawling franchise’s new confidence in the film’s standout action scene. A car chase and assassination attempt on Nick Fury on the streets of Washington is thrillingly staged and entirely superhero-free.
It does, however, give us a first look at the film’s supervillain. The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) is a chemically enhanced hardnut who looks like he’s climbed off an Iron Maiden album cover.His identity and that of his paymaster aren’t hard to guess but he’s just enough of an enigma to keep the feeling of paranoia simmering.The Russos manage to strike just the about the right balance between suspense,(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) action and comedy. There are few mildy amusing lines and a smattering of in-jokes, but this doesn't feel like a film that's desperate to tick boxes. Tellingly, there is no token love interest. Hayley Atwell does make a reappearance as Agent Carter, but she's now caked in old woman makeup. The Black Widow is too busy bashing skulls to make doe eyes at anyone.
Of course, this is still a Hollywood blockbuster so it’s not surprising when Rogers’ pal Sam (Anthony Mackie) sprouts wings for a 3D-friendly final showdown. But it’s the stuff on the ground that makes this movie soar. Captain America may not have been blessed with the best super-powers but his movie packs the one hell of a punch (Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier).The second Captain America movie is a terrific, stand-alone thriller that delivers exciting action sequences and engaging characters wrapped up in a satisfying and cleverly resonant plot.Co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo (best known for TV's Community) take over the reins for Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest film in Phase Two in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU), after Phase One ended with Joss Whedon's Avengers Assemble.
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The Russos deliver a series of genuinely stunning action sequences that are amongst the best Marvel have yet produced: one particular cheer-inducing highlight involves the Cap single-handedly taking down an armed jet plane. In addition, the satisfying script is packed with enjoyable character moments and combines elements of 1970s conspiracy thrillers (the casting of Redford is an explicit nod in that direction)(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and a variety of comics sources (there are a multitude of fan-pleasing references) as well tapping into some cleverly topical fears surrounding the activities of the NSA.Evans pitches his performance perfectly as the Cap, evincing palpable charisma and anchoring a morally complex plot with a character that you can always trust to make the right decisions – in many ways he's a much better Captain than the often rather boring figure in the comics.
Similarly, Mackie is terrific as the Falcon and Johansson gets to do a lot more than just kick ass in fetching fashion this time round.I saw an ad on British TV last Friday night — it came, perhaps unsurprisingly, during a break in the broadcast of the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — in which Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury helped British ISP Sky Broadband cheer on its new automatic censoring filters… the ones that new customers have to opt-out of if they don’t want them,(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and that have been found to block legitimate sites, including those offering rape counseling, sex education, and legal file sharing. (You can watch that ad here.) Is S.H.I.E.L.D. pro-censorship now? Has S.H.I.E.L.D. become part of the trading-liberty-for-security crowd? I thought they were the good guys who are all about freedom?More on that in a moment. First: Wow.The Avengers movies just keep getting bigger and better and smarter and more relevant with each flick. I might have to start calling this the best genre franchise ever.
I mean, this is just a dumb, loud comic-book movie, right? Now, I don’t think that, and lots of you don’t think that, and lots of us don’t believe that “comic book” automatically equals “stupid and juvenile.” But lots of other people do, and unfortunately Hollywood has done a pretty good job of perpetuating that stereotype. The Avengers series has been a big exception.(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) But even none of the Avengers movies up till now has stunned me the way that Captain America: The Winter Soldier has with its scathing commentary on what is happening in the real world today… and all wrapped up, to boot, in what is some of the most delicious, most comic-booky fantasy ever. The little kid in me almost wants to moan that I don’t want my silly stories burdened with “relevance” and “pertinence” and “political awareness.” The grownup in me, though, is very very glad to see it.And it’s all down to Steve Rogers.
Since we first met him in this Avengers series — in Captain America: The First Avenger — he hasn’t had time enough to begin to cope with the personal aftereffects of his one-way time travel, via cryonic sleep, from the 1940s to the 2010s, but as Winter Soldier opens, he’s starting to face his disconnect.(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson: Her, We Bought a Zoo) is trying to help him jumpstart his social life by suggesting cute girls they know that he could be asking out, but he feels that he doesn’t have anything in common with the women of this new century: all his cultural references are things those women’s grandfathers would have found familiar. In one early scene, as Steve makes a new friend in Afghanistan/Iraq veteran Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie: Runner Runner, The Fifth Estate), we see that Steve is keeping a list in a little notebook of all the most important things he needs to catch up with: the entries are things like “Thai food” and “Star Wars/Trek.”
It’s sweet and funny and poignant.But Steve’s displacement isn’t only about pop culture. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Fury (Jackson: RoboCop, Django Unchained) reveals to Steve a project the organization is about to launch: it involves a new fleet of massive helicarriers, high-tech aircraft carriers that float in the atmosphere instead of the ocean, that will watch over the planet, spy eyes on high — this was deemed a necessary security move “after New York” (that is, the events of The Avengers that culminated in an alien attack on that city). Steve is horrified. “This isn’t freedom,”(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) he tells Fury. “This is fear.”This might be sweet and funny and poignant if it were only fantasy, but here we have a guy who is unironically called Captain America, an identity that was created as a propaganda tool of the U.S. Army during World War II to promote American ideals, struggling with how those ideals get deployed — or don’t — in the 21st century. There’s ton of wonderful comic-book melodrama along the way, involving a potential infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. by nefarious forces; Fury tells Steve to trust no one, and soon we’re not even sure if we (and Steve!) should be trusting Fury.
And there’s a ton of wonderful comic-book action, of course, including Steve meeting his physical match in the mysterious masked Winter Soldier, who would appear to be a medically modified supersoldier like Steve himself, who may be working for whoever it is that could be trying to subvert S.H.I.E.L.D.; Natasha reveals that she has encountered this warrior before, and that rumors are that he is a Soviet construct left over from the Cold War.Even the comic-book stuff here, though, feels more relevant than it might: the big battle between S.H.I.E.L.D. forces, including Steve and Natasha,(Download Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and the Winter Solider and his friends through the streets of Washington DC — where S.H.I.E.L.D.’s shiny massive new HQ is — feels a helluva lot like a lone-gunman-on-a-rampage story lifted directly from 24-hour news channels. (In the next Avengers movie, there’s sure to be a line of dialogue in which someone laments the world “after Washington.”) Steve is, quite literally, a museum piece — we visit, with Steve, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum exhibit about his extraordinary life — but even with his disconnect in time, is he the only one with his head in the right place when it comes to what the U.S. has been doing to itself in recent decades?
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