Movie Review: Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

I saw Captain America 2 this weekend and I found the movie entertaining and worth the watch.

The story picked up with The Captain (played by Chris Evans) and Black Widow (played by Scarlett Johansson) leading a team on a mission.  The events of the mission lead to a string of questions and a thread of activity that brings up many aspects of the history of the characters and even SHIELD.

Along the way, they also add the Falcon (played by Anthony Mackie) to the small team of heroes.  It would be good to see him in future movies or even in the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD television series (I’m a bit behind in the show at the moment, so if he has already made an appearance, that would be good).

I think my favorite aspect of Captain America 2 was the amount of screen time they gave to Black Widow .  I actually like her character more than many of the other Marvel’s heroes.  The dark hero appeals to me, always has, and is evident my some of the comic in my collection.

There were a couple of issue I had with the movie, but they were not overly severe.  One was that there were a couple of times the movie seemed to drag a bit for me.  The pacing was such that even before a couple of scenes, I knew that the next scene would have to be an action scene because there had been enough of a “slow” period they would be amp’ing things up soon.  But as I said, not overly bad.

The larger issue I had with the movie I cannot describe without revealing spoilers, so I won’t go into the details.  However, I am mixed on the movie because of that aspect.  I will give the movie four out of five stars and would still recommend seeing it and even seeing it in the theaters.