Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Haven’t been to an 11.30am session for a movie for a long time (if ever) but that’s the life I lead nowadays, actually I just wanted to avoid the crowds so we watched this just a couple of days after release. I actually really liked the original Captain America (surprisingly) so I was looking forward to this one.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

I won’t bore you with the details, you can go watch it for yourself (I recommend it), basically the bad guys (Hydra) are tearing up S.H.I.E.L.D. from the inside and it’s up to Captain America (and the Black Widow) to solve the riddle and triumph over evil. There’s also the Winter Soldier to deal with, even though his metal arm has a commie star on it, he works for the Germans (or whoever Hydra is at this point), I’d also like to point out that he seemed to have super strength in his other arm and legs too because he was punching and kicking pretty powerfully with those limbs.

I just wanted to point out a couple of things that seemed a bit strange, the laser cutting device that the good guys kept using to dig out of cars and through the ground. How far could Nick Fury really have gotten when he used it, and then how did the good guys drop out of the car safely without anyone noticing during the daring escape? And why did the bad guys have such a bad setup with the convoy, the captives shouldn’t have been in the car at the back of the convoy, they should have been in the middle, no wonder they lost!

Of course there were the customary explosions and impossible flights of fancy (nothing close to Iron Man though), what I found really surprising was that Iron Man, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, and Hawkman were all too busy to help out, the case would’ve been done and dusted inside half an hour if they whole team was there. I guess they must’ve been saving other cities. Good film, I liked it, now waiting for the next one which happens to be The Avengers 2 (or Guardians of the Galaxy if just counting Marvel films, not sure if I’m up for this wacky one). Actually, X-Men is out in a month or so, going to be hard to get out to that one though.