Captain America: The
Winter Soldier
Film of the Year 2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
is both a saviour and a fatal destroyer to the comic book movie. A film that
got audiences thinking ‘actually Captain America isn’t the lamest Avenger’ and
being so critically and commercially well received that people can finally
forget that The First Avenger ever happened.
Excellent direction, more twists than a game of twister and a villain
who nearly raises to Joker-level iconicness. Robert Redford and Anthony Mackie
are excellent additions to the cast with Sam Jackson, Chris Evans and Scarlett
Johansson all raising their game beyond anything else we’ve seen of them in the
MCU. Seriously exciting to watch action
scenes with great choreography and sound editing in particular.
However, this movie did so well,
at least partly, because in a time when people are beginning to tire of comic
book super hero films, it presented itself as a political thriller, with some
superhero make up on top. My prediction is that movies like this and Guardians
of the Galaxy (a sci fi western also disguised as a superhero film) will be the
next trend as we ease out of the comic book boom. Pure one dimensional comic
book films like last year’s Thor: The Dark World, this year’s Amazing
Spider-man 2 or even X-Men Days of Future Past, will be those that are
forgotten about first.
Captain America: TWS will be the
film that forces the studios to evolve their comic book films to become
something more and encourage them not to be a slave of the genre.
5/5
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