Captain America: The Winter Soldier
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a superhero film on a
character based on Marvel Comics ‘Captain America’. Directed by Anthony Russo
and Joe Russo here comes a smart movie to delight you and keep you engaged for
two plus hours with nonstop loads of action and thrills. Where’ The Avengers’
left you longing for more the story moves ahead with Chris Evans as Steve
Rogers [Captain America] a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. who is back on a mission with
his friend Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson to save a ship from Algerian pirates,
while on the rescue operation Roger encounters Scarlett Johansson as Natasha
Romanoff stealing data from the ship's computers leaving him baffled about the security
of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Meanwhile Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury adhere his
attention towards three Helicarriers which have been designed to eliminate anticipatory
fear. As Fury is on his way to meeting Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill he has a surprise
attack by goons camouflaged as police officers [this can be one of the
highlights of the movie as the chase is meticulously choreographed with
excellent camerawork] as the chase draws him towards a strange assassin Sebastian
Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes / Winter Soldier he blows his SUV
leaving him crushed but he escapes and meets Rogers to hand over the USB flash drive
which has a secret access data code.
Rogers gets a call by senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official Robert
Redford as Alexander Pierce to extract the information about the USB but he
denies of such secret information and Pierce implicates him a fugitive. Rogers and
Romanoff decode the data in the flash and they activate a 1970s computer
containing the sealed awareness of HYDRA which was secretly operated across the
world for the hope that humanity would freely surrender its freedom in exchange
for safety. HYDRA agent Jasper Sitwell reveals that Zola developed a
data-mining algorithm that can recognize individuals who might become future
opponents to HYDRA. Henceforth the helicarriers will brush off and kill these
individuals with their satellite-guided guns.
Ultimately they lead a mission to prevent Pierce from
launching Operation to eliminate millions by replacing a chip within each
Helicarrier .
The Winter Soldier is a bizarrely multifaceted division to
embark into a movie from comic book tale is far from the ideology of superhero flick.
Although it may have a mix reaction from its fans who follow the comic caper,
nonetheless there are some moments of a mighty canvas production designs to
give you a full on delight of amazing visuals.
