{"id":1535,"date":"2014-04-02T22:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/entertainment\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2014-04-02T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:54:22","slug":"1535-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Is Stuffed with Bright Ideas, But Lacks in Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Captain America: The Winter Soldier is filled \u2014 and I mean jam-packed \u2014 with genre-bending, action-heavy, sportily tense and relentlessly sinuous, sky-high-concept and maniacally bonkers stuff. Polygonal mayhem that aims, and impressively so, to top the Marvel lot in ideas, deconstructing every thriller staple from government corruption to talking computers to odd couple agents gone rogue. But oddly enough, the moment in the Cap sequel that I find most arresting several weeks after seeing the film is our peaceful reunion with Steve Rogers, trotting merrily around the Washington Monument as the sun rises on our nation’s capital.<\/p>\n

The scene is shot from far overhead, a low pulse\/high spirits Chris Evans reduced to a shapeless blur as he repeatedly (but politely!) laps fellow jogger and veteran Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie)… and yet it might be the closest we feel to Cap throughout the movie.<\/p>\n

The Winter Soldier has a lot to worry about in the delivery of its content. Managing a plot as ambitious and multifaceted as its own, with themes as grand as the scope of the American mentality \u2014 as represented by Steve Rogers, raised in the good old days of gee-golly-jingoism \u2014 it doesn’t always have the faculties to devote to humanizing its central troupe. Cap isn’t left hollow, but his battles with the dark cloud of contemporary skepticism play more like an intriguing Socratic discussion than an emotional arc. Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, a character who ran circles around her Avengers co-players in flavor, feels a bit shortchanged in that department here (in her closest thing to a starring role yet, no less).<\/p><\/div>\n

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