Being a
Marvel superhero film building up toward The
Avengers: Age of Ultron, this film had a lot of anticipation with it even
before the trailers. Then, everyone saw the trailers, and there was a big hype
for the film. I was also really looking forward to seeing this movie. Then,
reviews started coming in of people saying that they loved it and it is
fantastic. Critics liked it, too. Well, believe the hype, because this is the
best of the Avengers Marvel movies (in my humble opinion).
I enjoyed Captain America: The First Avenger (this
film’s predecessor) and thought that it was an alright movie, but this is a
great movie. It has as much action as your normal, every-day superhero movie,
but it also has this very political side with the organization of S.H.I.E.D.
which really works to boost this movie into a political thriller, because that
is what half of it is like. The other half is a non-stop action thrill ride
that is constantly riveting. These two factors help balance out the film and
make it as great as it is.
This is
directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Here, they really help the movie. You
can feel how well-done this entire movie was. Though, during the action
sequences, they sometimes liked to use a close-up, quick-cut style. Sometimes,
it actually worked as a style and helped boost the action sequences, but
sometimes, I could not tell what was going on. I have no idea why they chose to
do that, because the choreography here is great. You can see all the actors in
these scenes doing their own stunts and that really boosts the hand-to-hand
combat element of the action sequences. It is just brought down a bit by some
of the quick-cut editing that does not work here. Though, during other types of
action sequences, the camerawork is really good, so the action is amazing. Though,
most of the action in this movie is riveting, by the way they were done (other
than some of the camerawork).
This film
has great acting: Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as Black
Widow, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Robert Redford as Anthony Pierce, and
Anthony Mackie as Falcon. I will not say would plays The Winter Soldier, but I will
say that they are fantastic and the bringing-out of The Winter Soldier is
fantastic. When we get our first looks at him, he is incredibly menacing. And
even as we see more and more about him, he is still incredibly menacing and an
extremely strong villain. The plot goes in a very unpredictable direction in
this movie that I loved. I will not spoil it, but it is a great way to go.
Also, the work for the villains that are not The Winter Soldier in this movie
is fantastic. It really seemed like they thought that they were doing the right
thing and they did not just want to do bad.
We get some character
development on our main characters in this movie (Captain America, Black Widow,
and Nick Fury) and we see them starting to go in different directions. I thought
was great that we actually had character progressions in this movie and we go
to see characters change. Even when there was not action on the screen, I was
very interested in seeing where the plot goes and learning more about these
characters. For half of this movie (action half), I was riveted and felt a huge
exhilaration. For the other half, I was really interested in what was going on.
This film never gets dull. The action is amazing and the score makes it
all-the-better.
While this
film does have all of these great things, it still does have flaws, like the
quick-cut style that does not work half the time. Though, it does not have many
at all, there is one more that I would like to address. I know this is a
comic-book superhero movie, but I have to address that things happen which are
way too unrealistic to let slide. There were some little things that I did let
slide, but there were some big things that really got under my skin.
Those are
actually all the flaws I had with this movie: two. I thought that this was a
great movie with an exhilarating action, great acting, fantastic villain-work,
and an excellent political side, but some of the direction was not-so-great and
there were some unrealistic things.
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