He may be a ruthless assassin with 24 kills to his credit already, but beneath the mask is a surprising character who may somehow find redemption yet.
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There’s also an insanely buffed-out, highly gadgeted villain in the movie called The Winter Soldier who wears a mysterious mask that looks just like the villain Bane wore in the last “Dark Knight” movie. With Fury appearing dead in the hospital, Rogers resolves to overcome his grief and kick a whole lot of butts along the way to saving the world from the nefarious plans that are far worse than he and the Black Widow – and their new superhero partner Falcon, who’s Wilson’s alter ego – could ever imagine: think massive drones that can kill anti-government citizens by the millions. Only Fury will explain it, but the moment he does, a string of hit men are sent to assassinate him. While she saves the hard drive and he saves her life, he’s left to wonder why she has a different mission than him. But he runs smack into fellow Avenger and mysterious former KGB agent Black Widow (Scarlett Johannsen) on board, discovering that she’s intent on saving the ship’s computer systems onto a flash drive just moments before a massive explosions rocks the control room. Rogers is dropped into the Indian Ocean to regain control of a SHIELD ship that’s been hijacked by French mercenaries. Jackson), the seeming head of the SHIELD forces [think a glorified version of the Department of Homeland Security) that step in when regular human police can’t handle a situation. But before too much talking time can elapse, Rogers finds himself called into a top-secret mission assigned directly by Nick Fury (Samuel L.
He meets a former soldier and PTSD counselor named Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), with whom he commiserates about their shared similar pasts on the battle lines.
As he’s catching up on the modern world and what he’s missed in skipping over 70 years of American society, Rogers (Chris Evans) is haunted by his past combat and torn about whether to go back into the military or maintain his status as an Avenger, one of a breed of superheroes who together form a top-secret defense for both America and the world at large. If that’s the case, then the team behind the new movie “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is working overtime to scare us.Ī sequel to the hit 2011 movie “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Winter” finds Captain America’s alter ego Steve Rogers firmly planted in modern Washington, DC society after engaging in wild time travels in the first movie. There’s a theory held by some movie fans that says that when a conspiracy thriller or sci-fi movie has a plot line about the destruction of mass amounts of humanity, the filmmakers are actually trying to warn viewers of real-life doom through clues in the fictional plotline.