By Roger Moore
The superhuman efforts director Joe Johnston made to persuade Chris Evans to re-enlist in the comic-book movie universe as “Captain America” pay more dividends in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”
Evans, that perfect specimen of American manhood, really sells the earnestness, the dry wit, the sense of duty and righteousness of the icon of American values that he represents in this sequel, even if Johnston isn’t around to direct it.
And it’s great that “The Winter Soldier” is actually about something, a comic-book spin on privacy and civil-liberties issues straight out of today’s data-mining headlines. It’s a freedom vs. fear movie, liberty vs. order.
There are clever ways the story folds back into the first “Captain America” film’s world, great effects and a retro-future tech that is fascinating.