Captain America: Out of Time

***Captain America: Out of Time*** is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, and is a sequel to *Captain America*. The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is the eleventh film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was released in the United States on July 5, 2013.

The film stars Chris Evans, Emily VanCamp, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Frank Grillo, Chloe Bennet, Thomas Kretschmann, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film received largely positive reviews from critics and audiences, praising the visual effects (particularly the use of practical effects), performances, score, and themes. A third film, *Captain America: Civil War*, was released on May 6, 2016.

## Plot

A year after the events of *The Avengers*, Steve Rogers/Captain America is a fully-fledged agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Along with Sharon Carter, he is sent on a mission to retrieve stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons from a Hydra submarine. However, once on the submarine, they are attacked by a masked Hydra assassin, who seems to be highly trained. Sharon fights him one-on-one and manages to see his face before being brutally injured. Rogers scares off the assailent before he can kill Sharon, and the two agents manage to make it off the submarine with the weapons. Meanwhile, Agent Clint Barton/Hawkeye has been working desk duty since getting injured in the Battle of New York. He is still searching for Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, after she defected from Hydra and escaped. Barton learns he is finally being put back in the field, and he decides to chase a lead on Romanoff.

Sharon recovers while Director Nick Fury informs Rogers that the Hydra operative that attacked them was the Winter Soldier, a seemingly ageless assassin that Hydra has employed for decades. He nearly killed Fury and is responsible for the accident that forces him to wear an eyepatch. Rogers is upset for not being told about the Winter Soldier, while Sharon reveals that his face seemed familiar. In South America, Hydra leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker oversees experiments being done on humans, in an effort to isolate the "super-gene" that grants people abilities. While most innocents are dying on the operating table, a young woman, Daisy Johnson, survives the experiment, and now has the ability to control the vibrations around her to create earthquakes. She is imprisoned while Strucker attempts to find a way to control her.

Sharon is attacked by the Winter Soldier again in the hospital, drawing Rogers to her side. The two fight one-on-one while Sharon calls for backup. A team of S.H.I.E.L.D. mercenaries led by Brock Rumlow arrives to assist Rogers, but the Winter Soldier manages to take out the entire team, leaving Rumlow as the only survivor. Rogers is also nearly killed by the Winter Soldier, but the latter suddenly pulls back and escapes without finishing Rogers off, leaving him confused. S.H.I.E.L.D. realizes that the Winter Soldier is specifically targeting Rogers. The Winter Soldier returns to Hydra, where Strucker realizes that memories of his old life as Bucky Barnes are returning to the brainwashed assassin. Strucker brainwashes Barnes further to remove the association of Rogers from his memory.

Barton arrives in Newfoundland, where he finds Romanoff in a secluded village. After a short scuffle, Barton tries to convince Romanoff to return with him to S.H.I.E.L.D., where she would be welcomed due to her help in the Battle of New York. Romanoff refuses, and tries to convince Barton to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. When he gets curious, she shuts down his questions. Barton slips up and mentions that he is on official assignment here, and Romanoff realizes that means his location is being tracked by S.H.I.E.L.D. She begins to panic, confusing him even more, before she determines that his coat has the tracker in it. She finds and destroys it, before packing up to leave her new home. When the two exit her cabin, they are already surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Barton is confused by why S.H.I.E.L.D. is after her, and when they threaten to kill her if she does not come with them, Barton realizes they are not really S.H.I.E.L.D. Together with Romanoff, they are able to take out the team and escape. Romanoff promises to fill him in on what is going on when they are safe.

As Rogers gets a strange feeling that something suspicious is happening in S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury learns that official documents regarding several misisons are being held from him, even though he has direct access to everything in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history. An explosive in his office goes off, nearly killing him. Rogers hears the explosion and rescues Fury from the rubble, along with Deputy Director Maria Hill. They collect Sharon, who has nearly fully recovered, and they escape when S.H.I.E.L.D. agents try to get them to surrender. They receive a signal from Barton and Romanoff and agree to rendezvous at the home of Rogers' friend, veteran Sam Wilson. Rogers thanks Wilson for allowing them to stay there and they learn that Fury has been framed for using S.H.I.E.L.D. as a cover-up to overthrow the government. When Barton and Romanoff arrive, the latter reveals that Hydra has been infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades, and has gone far up in the line of power. This is why Romanoff has refused to trust S.H.I.E.L.D., and they plan on finally taking power soon, which is why they were trying to get rid of Fury.

Rogers deals with this newfound information and while viewing a photograph from his time in World War II, Sharon recognizes Barnes as the Winter Soldier. While Steve sees this as impossible, Romanoff reveals she has heard things about the Winter Soldier, specifically that he has been cryogenically frozen to keep his youth. Rogers refuses to believe this and blames Romanoff for never revealing these secrets to them. This causes a fight to break out, in which Barton is accused of being Hydra in disguise, given the way he cares for Romanoff. Fury calms everybody down and gets them to work together. They decide to split up, Barton and Romanoff will return to S.H.I.E.L.D. with Wilson to stop the uprising that is happening, and to get a prototype set of armored wings for Wilson to use in battle, given his past as an Air Force pilot, while Rogers, Sharon, Hill, and Fury will seek out the Winter Soldier.

In South America, Strucker's plan is revealed; he will use S.H.I.E.L.D. to attack the American public, framing them as terrorists, while Hydra will rise up and stop them, posing as the heroes, using the publicity to overthrow the government in secret. He retrieves Johnson, who has been training, and heads to Washington D.C. Rogers and his team create a scene in downtown Washington to draw Hydra's attention and the Winter Soldier is sent after them. Rogers fights him again, ripping off his mask and confirming his identity as Bucky Barnes. Barnes does not recognize him but with the combined effort of the group he is detained by them and they escape again. They attempt to get Strucker's plan out of Barnes but he refuses to speak. Rogers attempts to get his memories back, but Barnes pretends to remember as a ruse to escape, and takes Hill as a hostage.

Barton pretends to take Romanoff in as a prisoner, and gets the two of them and Wilson in. They find Wilson's wings, which he takes a bit to get used to. However, the three are trapped when Strucker initiates his plan, which locks down the headquarters. S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers are prepared to be sent out to attack the public. The three try to stop the process, but are cornered by Rumlow, who was kept alive by Barnes due to his Hydra allegience. Rogers, Sharon, and Fury are unable to get in due to the lockdown, but they are attacked by Hydra, where Strucker taunts Fury due to his inability to see how far Hydra had gotten into their ranks. Johnson unwillingly fights the group, but Rogers sees how innocent she is and spares her. He convinces her to fight back against Strucker, and she helps them escape and get into the building

Inside S.H.I.E.L.D., the secret Hydra agents have turned on S.H.I.E.L.D. and are forcing them to send the Helicarriers into the air. Hill tricks Barnes into letting her go and she convinces the agents to fight back, stopping the Helicarriers from being released. Rogers and his team, with Johnson's help, destroy the weapons within the Helicarriers, while Barton, Romanoff, and Wilson overpower Rumlow and leave him unconscious. They meet up with Rogers, Sharon, Fury, and Johnson, where Strucker decides to use his backup plan, blow up the headquarters, taking out the majority of S.H.I.E.L.D. and much of the surrounding city, allowing Hydra to still rise up and take over, without S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop them. Their team manages to delay the explosion and evacuate the building using the helicarriers. Barnes is left inside and Rogers goes back in to get him. Barnes refuses his help, leading to another fight, but Rogers manages to get them out, but both of them are plunged into the water surrounding the building. The explosion goes off, but Johnson uses her abilities to contain the explosion, and there are no civilian casualties.

Rogers washes up on shore and is found by his allies, and they confirm that Barnes escaped too. Strucker is imprisoned and Hydra seems to be scattered, with Fury hoping to take out the rest of its splinters. S.H.I.E.L.D. is in shambles and the secret Hydra operatives are weeded out and tried for their crimes. Fury retires due to the bad image he has been given and appoints Hill to replace him as Director, essentially rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. from the ground up, starting with a new base in New York. Rogers, Sharon, and Barton join her, along with Romanoff, Wilson, and Johnson becoming new S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. In Europe, Barnes has secluded himself in an apartment, free from Hydra's control, where he stares a picture of himself with Rogers from World War II. In a mid-credits scene, one of the remaining Hydra bases is informed that Rumlow barely survived the explosion, having been left behind. In a post-credits scene, the South American base is raided by the FBI, where the remaining prisoners are freed, including twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, both of whom survived the experiments and now have abilities.

## Cast

* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
* Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter
* Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
* Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
* Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones
* Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson
* Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
* Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

## Reception

### **Box office**

*Captain America: Out of Time* earned $378.1 million in North America and $627.4 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.006 billion. Worldwide, it is the third-highest-grossing film of 2013, and out-grossed the first film. In North America, *Captain America: Out of Time* is the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2013 and was released on July 3, 2013. It set an opening weekend record with $169.8 million, beating *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2* by only $600,000. It also managed to beat the opening weekends of previous MCU films *The Avengers* and *Iron Man 3*, despite not grossing more than them overall. In its second weekend, it fell 61% to gross $65.4 million, staying in first place. In its third weekend, it grossed $32.6 million, falling to second place, behind newcomer *The Conjuring*.

### **Critical reception**

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported the film has an 85% approval rating based on 300 reviews, with an average rating of 7.40/10. The site's general consensus is that "The fun of traditional Marvel magic makes this occasionally dark comic adaptation a lively and captivating blockbuster for the summer." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100 based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.