Chris Evans picks for the third time the shield on Marvel's Star Spangled Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel to both Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and The Avengers (2012) and the now ninth film Marvel Cinematic Universe in. For the first time gets a Marvel Studios film, the title of a well-known story from the comics with it. The The Winter Soldier story in 2005 and has become a modern classic for Marvel's Captain America series. saga an unmissable Can we of filming by Anthony and Joe Russo (You, Me and Dupree) say the same?

Two years after the battle of New York from The Avengers, Steve Rogers is alive / Captain America (Evans) in Washington, DC, and he recovered all sorts of missions for the defense organization SHIELD, together with ao fellow Avenger Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). However, his personal life as a man beyond his time is not easy and he has struggled to adapt to the modern world. Itself to The battle between good and evil is not so black and white anymore as Captain America's heyday during World War II. It is not getting any better when corruption within SHIELD bigger and bigger seems to be no one to be trusted more, even director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is a target, and a mysterious new enemy shows up with a very clear link to Steve's past: the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) ...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, of course, is not a direct adaptation of the comic, but contains the key elements of this story made ​​such a classic. Similar to the modern-Captain America comics, the picture has become a cross between a political thriller and a superhero blockbuster. It provides a well put together, but perhaps too lengthy Marvel print on. Very nice is that much more attention is given. Yourself here to Steve Rogers The Avengers few scenes in which he tries to adjust deleted itself to modern times were but here we sympathize with Steve when he needs to catch up. A good 70 years of history Nowhere is this better shown than in an emotional scene with dementia Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), his love interest from the first film.

The chemistry between the corny Captain America (Evans) and the more modern, more ruthless and pragmatic Black Widow (Johansson) is also very good. The same goes for Sam Jackson as one, this time a little more fragile, but no less dangerous or mysterious Nick Fury. The new addition to the franchise is Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon (Anthony Mackie). How beautiful super soldier Captain America also moves, it's probably the Falcon who gets the best action scenes. Mackie gives a good and faithful performance as Cap's longtime partner and one of the first African-American superhero. Whoever does anything less is Emily VanCamp as Agent 13/Sharon Carter. Her character has not much to do, despite the equally important role it plays in Cap's life in comics.

It teems with Captain America-known enemies in this sequel. HYDRA scientist Arnim Zola will go back in a brief cameo that comic book fans will surely taste, SHIELD agent Brock Rumlow (Frank Grillo) will undergo its origins to crossbones and we get a short performance by Batroc the (not so quite) Leaper. Robert Redford then amuses himself again evident as the corrupt Alexander Pierce, a bigwig at SHIELD

However, the villain of the movie was named after does not have much screen time and you wait a long time with the final revelation, but the threat of the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) goes very tangible. His origin story was slightly modified, but this is perfectly placed in the film universe of Marvel. He was perhaps a little more in the film are explored, but it's nice to see that the Winter Soldier so faithful was displayed and appears to be. Still not done his story

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is probably the most serious and dark Marvel film to do so. Really there is not a lot of humor and most jokes and one-liners have been used in the trailers. At the same time it is also one of the most down-to-earth, realistic and character driven superhero movies. The action scenes are of course in abundance, but the film is not a breezy rollercoaster as The Avengers, Iron Man and Thor movies become. The big show is saved for the third act (with three SHIELD Heli-Carriers above the Triskelion). The other action segments remain fairly limited and down-to-earth. These are not bad, though the use of shaky cam was not necessary in any action scene.

At the same time, the film is also the most direct sequel and prequel to The Avengers The Avengers: Age of Ultron. If no other drives The Winter Soldier Marvel movie universe forward. There is also a lot of name-dropping going on, from Iron Man to Hulk and even Dr. Strange, as well as a nice reference to Samuel Jackson's role in Pulp Fiction. Certainly stay seated until after the credits, because again it contains Marvel film two additional scenes.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier may be a suit are serious and slowly built up over the previous Marvel movies, thanks to its well-balanced mix of political thriller and superhero genre and extensive character moments, this is the best Marvel Studios picture since The Avengers and certainly the culmination of Marvel's Phase Two.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier runs from March 26 at the cinema.

The Mighty Marvel tradition, Captain America includes: The Winter Soldier again obviously something extra after the credits. It will not run again, this time to one, but two scenes. One in the middle of the credits and at the very end. The description of these scenes, you can read in the box below ... But beware: spoilers!

Captain America: The Winter Soldier post-credits scene