Security over liberty, what the bad guys count on

Rating: 7/10 (4 April 2014)

Chris Evans who seems to be making a career out of playing superheroes comes back as Steve Rogers AKA Captain America. He meets an old friend from the past in not the best of circumstances in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The film begins simply enough as the Captain America team rescues some hijacked people on a ship at sea. But some other people on the team have some additional duties involving securing intelligence, a part of the mission that Evans is not told about.
Things get dicey when his mentor and supervisor Samuel L. Jackson is shot and killed and Evans becomes a wanted man. But being Captain America, he's not such an easy guy to take down.
In the end we're told it's a new world order being brought about by people who are thinking that people will beg for security with all the terror around them in this day and age. American establishmentarian figure Robert Redford goes against his all American hero type image to play the evil genius behind all this dirty work. Redford who probably came closest to a villain role before in Indecent Proposal looks like he's thoroughly enjoying himself as a bad guy.
I have to say I've enjoyed Chris Evans as both Captain America and Johnny Storm the Human Torch. It's sad in this day and age that real heroes are to be found in comic books as source material for films. Back in Hollywood's golden age Evans would have been a great cowboy hero.
Those who love Marvel comics will go for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in a big way. And some of us who never pick up comic books will enjoy it too.