At long last I gave Captain America a chance. I didn’t watch The First Avenger and I couldn’t appreciate him in The Avengers. Why did I watch his second outing then? Because some people said that this was the best Marvel movie since The Avengers. While that may be true, since Marvel hasn’t dished out anything great since The Avengers and the bar is set pretty low, this one doesn’t even come close to The Avengers and can be labeled as the ‘average’ category. If you are hoping for anything like that – you are bound to come out disappointed.
Captain America just doesn’t have much going for him as a superhero. In fact, he reminds me of that studious kid in class, who does everything by the book and tries too hard to get people to take him seriously. As a result, they don’t. Instead they look up to the Ironman types..the one that exudes natural charm and doesn’t even have to make an effort. Conspicuous by his absence, watching such a movie shows exactly why Robert Downey Jr’s screen presence matters as much as it does. Chris Evans tries for sure, but he just can’t pull it off
To make matters worse, the plotline is trying desperately to sound intelligent. It tries its best to weave a web of deceit, lies, treachery and double standards but unfortunately the only one who doesn’t seem to see through it all, is Captain America. As the audience, you’ve seen these tricks one too many times and could catch those twists in your sleep (barring perhaps one or two, but we’ll leave that trail cold for now) There’s plenty of action but none that would stir you and catch your attention. People can choose to live or die as the movie progresses and you couldn’t care less, for all the connect you’ve established with any of the surprisingly very familiar characters (courtesy The Avengers)
As you come towards the closing credits you might catch yourself wondering – is Captain America truly at home in the modern day superhero category at all. His uniform doesn’t enable anything – he doesn’t have a dual identity, its got no special powers other than that shield which can probably save him from even a nuclear explosion the way its exploited in the movie so does he really belong?
Marvel needs to slow things down. Dishing out such fare, one after the other without giving it due thought, will slowly lessen the excitement, the adrenalin rush and the sheer craze for the superhero genre the way its headed. The Winter Soldier just gets added to that list of ordinary fare, though, in all fairness, it might rank a little higher within that category.
Watch it if, for your own reasons, you are a Captain America fan. The movie clearly didn’t manage to make me one
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