Captain America: The Winter Soldier Review

Sorry I haven't been posting lately. High School has a hobby of free time consumption. Now on with the review!

One of my favorite film genres that has arisen from the ashes of the twenty-first century is the comic book film and the first of the year was Captain America: The Winter Soldier. As the film approached it was the comic book movie I was looking forward to the least. Not because I didn't like Captain America, it's just because I wanted to see Spiderman, Guardians of the Galaxy and X-men more. I didn't see much in the trailers but so I didn't really know what to expect. When critics started to see it and some said its better than the Avengers, some said its better than The Dark Knight and all of the critics gave it some of thier higher end if not highest ratings. the lowest grade I've seen is an 8 out of 10 from ONE person.

So at this point I'm pretty excited. When I saw it how did it turn out? It met my expectations and surpassed them. The film is very political which I wasn't thrilled about on Phantom Menace but  here is the difference between good political movies and bad ones (in my opinion). A good political movie has changes or ways of carrying them out that effects a character in some way and you also have to care about the character. The word character even (phonetically) has the word CARE in it. In Phantom Menace (which I believe is a disgrace to cinema) said the word negotiations like a billion times! No seriously count how many times they say negotiations in that film. That should be the ONLY reason why you watch that movie (again in my opinion). But I digress but what makes you care about these people isn't only the writing but the performances. I thought all of the performances were top knotch and the chemistry between everyone was just great. There were two performances that surprised me: Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Anthony Mackee as Falcon. Johansson was one of the Avengers I didn't particularly care about. She was kind of cool but in Avengers she seemed like the most serious one in a group of quirky characters so she came off as uninteresting by comparison. But in this film she stepped it up so much not only her performance but her arch as a character was so cool to see in the script. And Anthony Mackee, he blew me out of the water because going in I thought he was going to play this way over the top like a Chris Brown or an Eddie Murphey because the trailers kind of made him look like the comic relief which was followed by critic confirmation. But he was a light hearted character who came from a similar place as Steve Rogers.The action is also spectacular. I know that his shield is just a glorified frisbee but holy flufferballs its so cool! So in conclusion I can find very few problems if any, and I'd suggest seeing it a couple times in theatres. This was a great way to kick off the comic book movies of the year. What's next? Spiderman!

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