Is there anyone who hasn't of this guy? Its evident that now Marvel is raking in the good dough and has a high budget to move from comics to the movie theater with the chunk of Marvel based movies being made these days. Every major hero from the avengers has now the individual chance of having their own sequel and episode 2 and this is the one for Captain America. For those who dunno about this dude with his nice muscles and everything, here is how he looks alongside his good friends
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| Heres the Capt in all his glory and ready to rumble |
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| Captain America, less clothes but still as ready to rumble |
Storyline 4.5/5
This movie follows Captain America as he lives life as a hero in the modern world. Halfway thru, something happens and blames are thrown around and suddenly the good ole captain becomes seen as the bad guy. Overall, a story driven by betrayal that gives chance for the heroes to show their special moves.
Note that this movie is not just a action flick with a fix premise and the whole movie then focuses on the same premise. Nope, that is not this movie's description. Rather, this movie has an important story it wants to tell about the background and growth of Captain America and along the way there are various twists and turns. Hence you do need to somewhat understand what is going on to appreciate the movie better.
However, the storyline, being the main show focus does take up a huge chunk of movie time and as such it might be slightly boring for the pure action viewers. They do make a conscious effort to inject humor in this movie and they are generally pretty good and entertaining.
Character 4/5
This movie introduces more then just Captain America. In fact, there is emphasis on the Capt, a new super hero called Falcon, Black widow and even good ol' Nick Fury. Even the Winter Soldier is slightly introduced in this movie as the main villain.
All the characters are distinct enough in terms of fighting styles and their backgrounds and the way they do things so its clear that all of them have their own individual problems. You will see the Capt clearly as the leader of the team, the widow as the spy like figure, Nick Fury for all his shady undertakings and distrust etc. This is the emphasis of Marvel. However, there is not really enough time to squeeze more character content into a supposed action based show as one might like but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Cinematography 4.5/5
This movie has a good mix of shots that are very clearly filmed especially in action scenes so you pretty much get to see good fighting scenes throughout the show. All the fights have their unique defining moments and are not mere fights for the sake of fighting which is a good plus to the movie.
There are also a few good epic and wow shots throughout the movie that add a lot of enjoyment value to the movie.
Still there are moments that can still be slightly more improved to reach levels like the 300 movies (although I haven't seen the latest one) but all in all the shots are quite well done and do add great entertainment value as well as impact values (meaning you feel the impact as if you were hit by them) in the movie.
Music 4/5
The movie and its positive effect on the movie are appreciable. Its no musical, but you will definitely notice its presence and it will set you up for whatever section of the movie you are currently at.
Spectacle 4.5/5
If you are a Marvel story line fan, this is a no brainer. Long movie time, strong storyline and good action scenes that fully emphasize on the strength of the Capt makes this a must see show. For action lovers, you won't be entirely disappointed but the strong story line will put off those who just wanna see action which is not the main emphasis in this movie. Also if you are too tired, towards the center of the movie there is some very content heavy sections. It might make you fall asleep.
None the less, if you are going to see the next movies like the coming avengers, then you will see this sooner or later so you might as well see it in a movie setting where the sounds are louder and you can feel the impact.
Overall
Storyline: 4.5 (Strong storyline, clearly the emphasis, might be too strong till people who cannot pay attention fall asleep though, hence can improve on pacing)
Character: 4 (Introduction of new characters all whom are distinct. Just a bit little time for full backgrounds and emphasis)
Cinematography: 4.5 (Good shots, fight scenes are very impactful. Just lacks large epic battles of huge proportional and maybe even more creative shots)
Music: 4 (Significant booster to the immersive values)
Spectacle 4.5 (Everything a Marvel fan expects of the movie, story line and action is done well above average)
Overall: 4.3 (A strong scoring shows that this is a show that fans must see, but action lovers can also find enjoyment in this movie. You don't need to have any particularly low expectations of this movie to really enjoy it as it does provide good quality entertainment to all but the worse critics. Go ahead and see it if you need some form of entertainment as a 3 hour action movie that has a high probability of being entertaining is a good time sink and investment of your time.)
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