
America (Chris Evans), lives in the nation’s capital as he tries to adjust to modern times. Why does this matter? If the film is indeed enjoyable (and profitable), isn’t that enough? After the cataclysmic events in New York with his fellow Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Capt. It’s mind-blowingly awesome on so many levels! Unfortunately, music is not one of them.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is flat-out my favorite Marvel film to date. The movie successfully fuses Captain America’s black and white world where things were simpler with our morally ambiguous one and creates an old-fashioned villain out of our fears of digital snooping. Worried about our culture of incessant surveillance and what those in charge of that information will do? You should be, because in the Avengers universe that means you could become collateral damage to a clandestine plot that runs in, out, and around S.H.I.E.L.D., the overwhelming security force of the western world. This kind of approach propels Winter Soldier throughout its entire running time. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo skillfully blend topical political themes with a treatment that’s classic 70s conspiracy thriller, even if the script itself doesn’t fully exploit these ideas. He’s adjusting to contemporary life by keeping a handwritten list of the American pop culture he missed during his Rip Van Winkle years. Ninetysomething and still faster than you, Steve Rogers/Captain America nevertheless encounters challenges specific to his unique circumstance.

Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.Ĭhris Evans, Samuel L.
