A Missed Capportunity

Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2014)

Saw Captain America: The Almost Redundant Subtitle yesterday. While I was thrilled and highly entertained for large sections of the film I couldn't help but feel a disappointing lack of heart at the end of it. Despite having few arcs to play with the cast did a great job with the characters, but the enormous amounts of crashing and banging, while executed with aplomb, meant that the key themes and scenes were rarely allowed to settle with any emotional heft, and the overwhelming number of characters and elements to the plot, some detractively silly, meant that only lip-service could be paid to the real questions we should have been asking ourselves, and to the 70s thrillers it was clearly referencing. I'll presume there was an iteration of the film where the Winter Soldier element was far more relevant and personal to the story but here it was all but a sideline to the explosions. Enjoyable then, but not the film it purported to be at the outset.
p.s. The post-credit stings would have worked far better the other way around, so people should stay to the very end.
p.p.s. I'm sure that a World Security Council ought to have more than five members on it?