Release: 26th of March, 2014US - 4nd of April, 2014
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Duration: 136 minutes
Cast: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp. (more information)
Synopsis: Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier. (IMDb)
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
What We Thought?
Below are both Joe's thoughts and Kerry's thoughts, their overall numbers are out of 5.
Click and highlight the spoilers to reveal the information.
Joe thought...
Well, Chris Evans, can we please take a moment. I hope there was no padding in his butt, because if "Bum of the Year" wasn't only for women, then he would win. Obviously that's not the only aspect that I enjoyed about the film...I enjoyed that it could scare me, not in a gritty horror with lots of blood scary, but in a "oh god, what's going to happen now" scary, and not to mention that the Winter Soldier *spoiler* Bucky scared to the point where I made a loud squeal sound in the cinema, almost as if I'd seen a spider. It's probably just the mask because Bane from The Dark Knight Rises had the same affect on me.
There was some predictability, but at the same time, even that which was predictable was also turned on its head and I felt silly for rolling my eyes and saying "ugh, I knew it".
A huge something annoyed me, but it's also a spoiler... in the end S.H.I.E.L.D is done, it's shut, it was run by Hydra, so it's gone. Now, I haven't been watching the programme S.H.I.E.L.D, but surely it'll be in for a name change now, that, or they'll need to introduce the whole change over because it was Hydra, and if they do, that would spoil it for those fans that haven't seen it at the cinema. Or, maybe S.H.I.E.L.D is set in the future after all of this. I've definitely over thought this, but it was something that kept niggling at me.
Hands up if you also let out a gasp when you saw Emily VanCamp a.k.a Revenge's Emily Thorne as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D... because I know I did, alongside making jokes and comments about her being crazy and that Steve Rogers shouldn't trust her--I found it funny, much like whenever you see an actor from Harry Potter in a film and you tell them that they'll be fine because they have wands.
Scarlett Johansson was great as the Black Widow, and we need a film centered around her. They keep making hints about her past, and right now, I want more. I need to have a full film focused on her and her character. (IMDb has a page set up for Black Widow... so maybe this could happen sooner than we thought.)
...why I gave this film FOUR out of FIVE.
There were some really great action sequences that kept me on the edge, and even though I could predict what was going to happen at times, nothing can prepare you for the huge cinema screen and loud FX sounds from the speakers when you're in the moment and there's a huge explosion. I found that the whole film was stitched together perfectly, and my only unanswered questions were in the spoiler above.
Kerry thought...
It has to be said that Marvel films never fail to deliver an exciting and original storyline with lots of little twists and turns to keep you interested, and The Winter Soldier was no different. There was always something going on in this film and there were some brilliant action and fight scenes as well as one AMAZING car chase which got me ridiculously excited.
It also has to be noted that Chris Evans suits the character of Captain America perfectly, just as Scarlett Johansson makes a perfect Black Widow. These two also have a great on-screen chemistry which is a great added extra to the film and also prompted me to spend much of the film willing them to pounce on each other and kiss at any given moment.Despite all this being said I did have a few issues with the film. I found that I could predict what was about to happen a lot of the time and I hate that; I love to be surprised by a film. There were also some very strange moments where characters would make odd jokes or say strange things that I didn't really understand (perhaps this is just because I don't always understand American humour).
My main issue with this film was that, for me, the storyline felt bigger than Captain America and I found myself missing the other Avengers; something which never happened in the Thor or Iron Man films. This is mainly because part of the storyline is that S.H.I.E.L.D. is being taken down, and in my opinion more of the Avengers should have helped out with such a big issue and everything would have been sorted out a lot quicker if they had. Admittedly this is probably a flaw in the original comics and may not have been the film's 'fault' but it still stopped me from enjoying it as much as I might have done otherwise.
...why I gave this film THREE out of FIVE.
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