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Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

By Olivia Yocca 6 min read
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Warning: This contains spoilers

“Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier” came out in theaters last month and did not fail to please comic fanatics. The reviews have only been positive, and it capped off $300 million in its opening weekend.

The movie starts out with Captain America, played by Chris Evans, taking a run around Washington, D.C., where he meets a veteran and the two become instant friends. But, their talk is interrupted when Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson, reports that there is a new mission. Captain leads an elite team, including Black Widow, to rescue some top secret members of S.H.E.I.L.D from alleged pirates. As usual, this mission was assigned by Nick Fury. During their mission, Captain discovers that Black Widow was assigned another mission, to download secret S.H.I.E.L.D information onto a hard drive. This is an important event.

Once the team returns back to S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters, Fury shows Captain the future of S.H.I.E.L.D, which is to destroy any current or future threats at all costs. After the meeting, Nick Fury decides to drive around after Captain leaves, but is brutally attacked. This is where we meet a new character called the Winter Soldier. Fury barely lived through this action packed scene. Later, Fury goes to Captain’s apartment to tell him that S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromised. He also gives him the USB data drive that Widow had and told him to trust no one. While Fury is still at Captains home, the Winter Soldier comes and shoots Fury through the window. This is the first time that Captain has seen Soldier, and finds out that he has the same strength and speed that he does.

Fury is taken to a hospital, where he “dies.” Everyone is very upset about this, especially Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Pierce then has a meeting with Captain, trying to find out more information about who killed Fury. Pierce believes that Captain is a threat and then has everyone try to kill him. Captain barely escapes from S.H.I.E..L.D headquarters and realizes that everyone is out to get him except for Black Widow. They then team up and go to Captains old camp from before he was experimented on. When they get there, they discover the old Hydra scientist was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D to continue experiments on injured soldiers. This is where the Winter Soldier came from.

Captain and Widow return to Washington and seek refuge with his friend from the beginning of the movie now called Falcon. Falcon told them that he was more experienced than originally thought, and wanted to help fight Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D with them.

After Falcon joins them, Captain meets face to face with the Winter Soldier, only to realize that Soldier is his old best friend Bucky from World War 2. In the first Captain America, Bucky was on a mission with Captain towards the end of the movie and falls off of a zip line. Captain assumed that Bucky had died instantly, but now we discover that he is not dead, but more alive than ever.

Bucky does not remember Captain at all, in fact he gets extremely confused and angry when he returns back to Hydra. As soon as Pierce arrives to instruct Bucky, he cleared his memory. Meanwhile, Captain and his crew were captured by Hydra/S.H.I.E.L.D. They escape with the help of Maria Hill, and travel to a secret location. When they arrive, they see that Nick Fury faked his death and is being treated by a doctor. Everyone is relieved to find Nick alive, but realizes the urgency of their next mission: to take down S.H.I.EL.D.

This is where all of the action starts to pick up. Captain sneaks into the S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters and delivers a message to all of the employees, notifying them that SH.I.E.LD is now full of Hyrda operatives. This turns everyone against each other. Finally it becomes a face to face fight for Captain and Soldier. Captain stops S.H.I.E.L.D from hurting civilians, but then tells Hill to just blow up the ship he and Soldier were on. Solder is stuck under a piece of debris, and Captain makes the choice of saving him. He then says that he refuses to fight his best friend and that he rather die than kill him. Soldier then throws an unconscious Captain off the ship into the water. We then discover that Soldier jumped in after him and saved his life. This is a huge turning point in the movie and also for Soldier with his inner Bucky coming out.

The whole world has been saved because of Captain and his crew. Although there were many casualties, including Pierce, there would have been many more if Pierces plans would have succeeded.

As always, there are extra clips at the end of the movie to lead into the next. For this particular movie there were two. The first clip showed von Strucker in an underground lair speaking to a fellow Hyrda employee talking about some new weapons they have. They then walk up to very familiar weapon to Avenger fans. Hydra does have the Chitauri scepter, which is Lokis. Von Strucker also walks by a set of crucial characters. In cells, they have Quicksliver and the Scarlet Witch, who are a set of twins. They are also known as Magnetos children. Quicksilver has the ability of super speed, and Scarlet Witch has telekinetic powers. It was already announced that they will appear in the sequel to The Avengers, but it was a huge shocker that they were introduced in this movie.

The second clip was a less surprising one, but still was interesting. It showed Soldier at Captain Americas exhibit reading Bucky’s specific article. This is just confirming that Soldier is starting to realize that he may be the man Captain says he is.

Overall, I feel like this is one of the best Marvel movies. It includes a huge amount of action and does no fail to entertain you. There are a ton of twists throughout the movie and Marvel did a wonderful job at keeping you interested. The next movie that includes Captain America is The Avengers 2, but a third Captain America his already a topic among social media sites.

Olivia Yocca is a freshman at Peters Township High School.

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