Just Brilliant.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2017)

Winter Soldier is possibly still my favourite Marvel movie, with an engaging and engrossing story, tremendous action and a terrific cast. I loved it at the cinema and a re-watch on blue ray last night confirmed how good it is.
Robert Redford in Washington - shades of All The President's Men! He may be pretty old but he just oozes class. Marvel always seem to go for high calibre actors. No exception here.
The plot of course concerns Cap investigating a conspiracy within SHIELD, abetted by Black Widow with a first appearance from The Falcon. They made a great team - a sort of mini-Avengers.
Sam Jackson gets a bit more to do - hurrah - and if you missed the quote on the tombstone, have another look. Fantastic little in-joke. Seb Stan is great as the tormented Soldier, putting the lie to the claim that Marvel villains are all generic.
Cap's fight in the elevator is superb - as are all the fight scenes, and if one or two plot points are a bit far fetched I can forgive that easily. Doc Zola's algorithm which predicts future threats to HYDRA so they can be assassinated is a case in point.
Great CBM, then. Civil War is almost as good.