Captain America: The Winter Soldier Review

Screencap from the trailer

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, was it a good film? Yes. Was it different from past Marvel films? Yes. Was it a game-changer? Hah! That's one way of putting it. Before I go any further, I would like to say one thing, this post will be spoiler-free. So, if anyone who hasn't seen the film already, can precede on, though seriously, go see it!
 Anyway, Winter Soldier has been on the list of movies that we were definitely going to go see at my house-my Dad thought it looked awesome from the very first trailer-and boy, it was worth it. The film had what I guess is the trademark comedy side of Marvel films, but it wasn't a comedy film. It didn't have as many jokes as Thor, or Thor: The Dark World. In fact, this is one of the most serious films Marvel has done, 'cause, seriously, it didn't focus on comedy. There were a few one-liners here and there, but that's it.
   But what about the most important thing about comic-book films? The Action. The action was awesome. I read somewhere that they used 'shaky-cam' but the camera seemed to stay focused in my opinion. The action scenes was done wonderfully, and the whole car chase scene was pretty dang cool.
    But how about the villain? The Winter Soldier. Very menacing. After the car chase, when it did a close up, and he was wearing those glasses, my goodness gracious, he didn't have to say nothing, he was just very menacing. As a villain he was very menacing, even if you knew who he was. (I won't spoil in case some don't know).
    On the hero-side, you have Steve Rodgers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson. I admit, they made a pretty darn cool trio of not-so-super-super heroes. The fights between Steve and Winter Soldier had a lot of tension, and when Steve finds out who the Soldier is, it gets a lot more interesting.
   Some of the flashbacks were cool, and others were really disturbing. There were a lot of nice moments between characters, particularly between Steve and Fury, and Steve and Natasha, and there are some nice moments between Steve and Sam as well.
     There were plot-twists. Plenty of plot-twists. (I think that's Phase 2's thing, you know, plot twists. What Phase One was, I don't know. Comedy? Fun?) But, I knew some of them because I'd accidentally seen some spoilers online-I tried, I really, really did. I didn't want to be spoiled, promise!-but even still, some of them were a shock, and it made me go, 'hang on, is that-', so yeah.
    There are some nice callbacks to the first film, which was a nice touch as well. You learned a bit more about Natasha, but not much. Maria Hill wasn't in the film as much, and I think she had a slightly bigger role in the Avengers. However, some of her scenes were cool.
      One of the scenes towards the beginning of the film made my mouth drop. (Minor Spoilers, though anyone who's seen the trailer will know about it) all those Helicarriers. Wow. Completely made my mouth drop. I couldn't help but think though, 'I like the Bus better'.
       Does this film change the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Yes. Will Agents of SHIELD be feeling the aftershocks? Oh, yes. Things are going to be a lot different for the team on there.
     But, down to business. Was the film awesome? Was it as good as the Avengers. As much as I hate to say it, I honestly don't think it was. It was a great film, really. It was awesome. But it's not as good as the Avengers. If I had to rank a top three for films, it would go like this:
   1. The Avengers
  2. Star Trek Into Darkness
  3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier




Stars:
Four out of Five


Thoughts on the Trailers
Transformers: Age Of Extinction  looked pretty darn cool. (Even if I walked out of the room during the second one due to a 'death' of one of the Transformers, and I didn't see the third one, I think there was a third one) I've seen two of the Transformers movies, and they were good, and this one looks pretty cool. Though, I think it might be a wait-till-DVD thing...
Maleficent looked alright. The trailer we saw didn't look as good as the first one I saw. Even though I'm not a Disney person, I do know how the Sleeping Beauty story goes, and it doesn't look like it's sticking to the tale. I probably won't watch this film, but the first trailer was alright.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 looks awesome. And I'm absolutely biased to write a review on this trailer, because I'm a major spidey-fan, and I'm counting down the days to the film, but I'm still going to write this area. It looks awesome. It looks completely downright...spectacular when you watch the trailer on the big-screen. Though I've seen the trailers so many times, I knew all the lines and all that, but it was still awesome. May 2nd here I come! Hehem...
Guardians of the Galaxy looks alright. Admittedly, I wasn't exactly hooked on the idea of the movie through the first trailer, I admit the more times I watch the trailer, it looks better. I might see it, I'm not sure, but as my dad said, 'Superheroes in space-you can't go wrong with that'.
 I was really surprised they didn't show a trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past. I don't know why....

Note: When you go, stay seated until the screen that says: 'Captain America Will Return [insert movie title here]' shows up. There are two after credits scenes, and the first one is a definite must watch. The second is up to you rather or not you want to see it, but it does show what happens to a character from the film. So, the first, ties in pretty well into Age of Ultron, the second not-so much, but again, up to you. (Also, practically no one left their seats when the movie went off. A couple did, but not many.) Also, in the first mid-credits scene an 'uh-oh' escaped my mouth.....

-Tegan