Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Hey there readers, I'm back. Sorry for the delay, I was busy creating my Johnny Mnemonic review for my Rotten Reelz Reviews Video Review (Now available on YouTube!) so yeah I was a bit distracted. Yes I am aware of the high grossing MCU Avengers: Infinity War and no I have not seen it yet. Please, no spoilers.

Instead I thought we could enjoy the dethawed 6'2" blond, bohunk of the 1940s after his Avengers debut. This time around he is working with S.H.I.E.L.D dealing with conspiracies, collateral damage and a ton of action. This is Captain America: Winter Soldier.

Captain...going down?  wink wink.

Captain America (Chris Evans of The Losers, Not Another Teen Movie and Fantastic Four) is adapting to modern life, goes for a lengthy run of 20 miles. That would warm up the limbs. He bumps into a vet Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man) and they bond over being in combat and adjusting to civilian life.

Scooped up for an search and rescue team for a ship in international waters alongside his fellow Avenger, the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansen of Lost in Translation, Iron Man II, The Avengers and Ghost in the Shell) as they assess the situation and drop the terrorists.

Fighting skills by Hydra. Fabulous hair by Vidal Sassoon.

After being a bit pissed at Widow working a different mission on his, Cap grumbles at Director Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson of Pulp Fiction, Rules of Engagement, Iron Man II, The Avengers and The Spirit) about protocol, soldiers needing to have each others back and so on. Head guru spymaster lets Cap in on the new upgraded helicarriers, loaded with rail guns and missile racks, speaking of how wiping out potential threats instead of playing clean up. Both argue their different ideals of how America should respond to threats and Cap is adamant how wrong this rejoinder and stomps off like a diva.

Fury starts investigating how this mass SNAFU to find out who is behind it and is later chased by armed assailants dressed like SWAT. Big question during this firefight...where are the actual cops? Anyone? Fury's poor SHIELD SVU has been blasted something fierce and just when all looks fine, a single armed man blasts his ride, flipping it up and over.

Cap returns home to find a battered Fury hiding out in his apartment and he casually talks to him while passes Cap notes explaining SHIELD isn't the secure, agreeable peace keeping force we are lead to believe when Fury takes a few rounds from a sniper.

Cap's neighbor watches over Fury while Cap gives chase, hurls his mighty shieeeeeeld...and low and behold, our sniper is the same guy that shot at Fury prior, catching Cap's shield in his nifty bionic arm. He hurls it back at Cap and leaps from a rooftop like it's nothing.

Cap and Widow regretting the three bean burritos now.

Head of Council, Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Three Days of the Condor, Legal Eagles and Captain America: Winter Soldier) wants answers. Cap keeps it close to the vest and heads out. His team decides to jump him and we have a decent smack down and chase.

Widow works with Cap to figure out who took out Fury, what the hell is going on and what seems to be a building to a mass conspiracy to take over the world?!

Not to use existing titles too often but this is The Manchurian Candidate, Three Days of the Condor and good old over-the-top comic book action.

With collusion, cloak and dagger motifs, gun play and plenty of suspense; we have a decent machination story line offering plenty of story, intrigue and managing to keep a riveting fantasy trying to remain grounded in reality.

An awesome cast giving a great performance, excellent SFX and a sequel that surpassed its original.

I highly recommend this film for action fans and comic book fans alike.

Not sure how to say it Ludlow, but you look like a weasel.