As I said above one of this movies greatest strengths is being a directly sequel to Cap 1 more than the Avengers while still filling in story for both ; set a few years after the events of New York Captain America (Chris Evans) A.K.A. Steve Rogers is working directly for S.H.I.E.L.D. as a military asset and leader of a covert strike team that has been drifting towards the unsavory under the orders of Nick Fury (played by Samuel L Jackson) and after an attempt on his life he hides out in Rogers' apartment to warn him that he thinks S.H.I.E.L.D. is compromised and that he needs to figure out who's in charge of all the evil doings including a new auto-threat-elimination system of helicarriers. He is then shot before he's able to give the Captain any details by a mysterious assassin with a strong cybernetic metal arm. Together with the help of Agent Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) they'll have to find out the identity of the Winter Solider and figure out who's been secretly taking over S.H.I.E.L.D. IT'S A WHO DONE IT IN WASHINGTON! To be fair that plot may not sound very cool but trust me it culminates in some of the series' biggest action set pieces and best hand to hand fights. The villain is menacing and well designed a lot like the movie as a whole which manages to take the tone of the original Cap movie and bring it over into the modern setting.
The thing that catches a lot of people off guard with the character of Captain America is that he's just a super human. Nothing unique, no special powers just a good solider trying to do good things. He spend a good amount of time behind his shield and more interestingly is constantly holding back unless he absolutely has to fight. He doesn't want to kill anyone he just doesn't like bullies. You see unlike the plot of Iron Man 3 his resolve never changes and neither do his motivations because hes a very simple guy who constantly parades around talking about freedom and protecting others and doing the right thing. By all accounts he should be goofy and kind of obnoxious but the guys who write him have found a good balance and words and action that constantly keep you rallying for the Cap. They even have a moment in this film that's basically the "Swing the cranes in, we gotta help Spider-man" except it's done in such an emotional way with such a real character that you almost want to cry at the sincerity.
On a film making level this movie is wicked awesome, great action set pieces on both a hand to hand and large scale boom bang explosion level without losing sight of what's important. Every little twist in turn is handled really nicely including the introduction of a classic Captain America side kick type character who I'm not going to spoil. Honestly it's way easier to criticize a movie than to praise it, and if I had any critiques for Cap I'd say it half introduces a lot of universe building type characters that I would have liked to see more of like a potential love interest and a recurring bad guy that sort of thing. I always appreciate nods to the comics but there a couple here that are really odd choices (Like Georges Bartoc of all characters) but I don't they detract from the movie. The biggest thing that will waiver your opinion of this movie is simply if you like all the Marvel movies thus far, if you do you'll like this one it's great, if your on the fence this one could change your mind, but if you don't like them and think there are too many super hero movies then there's nothing anyone can do. AND I PITY YOU!
Unlike Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, which were good movies, this movie really delivers on all levels. Go see it!
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