Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the best Marvel movie to date. I repeat…the BEST Marvel movie to date. Winter Soldier not only is a great movie in its own right but also acts as an important part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its future.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier follows up the events in the Avengers but squarely is a Steve Rogers solo vehicle. What sets it apart from other Marvel Studios films is that the story really involves all of the Marvel Universe and not just Captain America. While the situation involving Winter Soldier himself really focuses on Captain America, it is the parts that involve Nick Fury and Black Widow that reach out to the whole world that’s being built. S.H.I.E.L.D. plays such a huge part in the Marvel Universe, and in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, viewers are finally able to see how important it is. Winter Soldier is almost secondary to the narrative that plays out with S.H.I.E.L.D. Most importantly, as big as this story is, it’s very easy to understand by any movie goer, especially those whose only exposure to these characters is through the movies.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier also boasts some of the best characterizations in any of the Marvel movies thus far. Captain America is perfectly written by the screenwriters and played excellently by Chris Evans. There’s this subtle charm to the way Evans plays the character. Captain America is often seen as this purely patriotic and that becomes almost silly but in recent years in the comics, and now in the cinematic universe, Steve is a defender of people. He’s not blindly following S.H.I.E.L.D’s orders or the United States’ order for that matter. He’s a defender of the American people and fights for them. In the first film we got a glimpse of this but in Winter Soldier, we see it even more and it adds to making Steve Rogers a likable character and someone you believe the Avengers will follow into battle.
The supporting cast helped make this movie a fully engrossing film for the viewer. Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson and Sebastian Stan all add to the greatness of this film because not a single of these characters could have been left out without losing something from the narrative. Johansson has many detractors but she has become Black Widow. She had a much larger role in this film and the movie was better off for it. Anthony Mackie as Falcon was a much-needed addition to the non superpowered characters and his backstory helped make the story modern. Falcon is a character I think a lot of fans will walk away from the movie wanting to see more of. Mackie was so likable and his timing on some of the more lighthearted lines was great.
No proper Marvel movie discussion would be complete without mentioning the action. Captain America: The Winter Soldier has the best action scenes of any movie this year and I’d argue it was better than the Avengers. Fight scenes were choreographed so well and anything involving Cap throwing his shield is the stuff made of nerd dreams. It’s a big budget film that used the budget well.
Overall Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the best Marvel movie to date and it is definitely the most fun you will have at the movie theaters right now. No movie comes close. The stage is certainly set for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and fans would be doing themselves a disservice by not watching this. After the overall disappointments Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World were, Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a much needed bump in quality. Make sure you stay for the mid credit and post credit scenes as they are as important as the movie itself.
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