I should warn you — I
have superhero fatigue.
Chris Evans returns
as the Cap', in Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, to defend America’s ideals in the modern world.
I should note that I walked
into this film with a super case of superhero fatigue, but this film
entertained me. It’s a little more on the Iron Man
and Avengers side of the comic book spectrum;
not The Hulk, Iron Man 2, Fantastic Four,
Amazing Spiderman side.
For starters, there’s
no origin story. And there’s no baddie who accidentally turns himself into a
powerful monster. As part of a more complex storyline, Cap finds a marvelous villain
in modern government and the very military unit he
defends. And who better to head that group up than — Robert Redford, star of 70’s
paranoid movies (3 Days of the Condor,
All The Presidents Men).
The
banter is witty, the one-on-one fights are fun and curves are thrown at you at unsuspected
moments. And by curves, I mean Scarlett Johansson,
winning in her sidekick role. Eventually, the plot and the action got bigger
and my interest got smaller.
Simply
put: In the world of comic book films, this is a hero.
Award
potential: None, but the FX are
just right.
The ten
buck review: Worth ten bucks.
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