I enjoyed “Captain America: The First Avenger” but I think “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is actually better. This sequel seemed far more interesting than many of the other Marvel movies and it’s got to be one of their best, even better than the first “Iron Man”.

In “The Winter Soldier”, Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans “Sunshine”, “Fantastic Four”) returns and finds himself having to uncover a mystery after an assassination attempt on Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson “Pulp Fiction”). Captain America joins up with Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson “Lost In Translation”) and Falcon (Anthony Mackie “The Adjustment Bureau”) to face the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan “The Martian”).

I enjoyed Chris Evans’ performance in “The First Avengers” but I didn’t really care for him in “Avengers Assemble”. In this film, I think they’ve made the character more interesting and that makes the performance more entertaining. Scarlett Johansson is good as Black Widow. I love some of the interactions between Captain America and Black Widow. Falcon is intriguing and I hope he gets more screen time in another Marvel film. Although I really did like the Winter Soldier, I felt his interactions with Captain America were disappointing. Samuel L. Jackson is good as Nick Fury.

The action sequences in “The Winter Soldier” are just incredible and there seems to be so much going on throughout the movie. I think the characters and the plot are handled really well and I thought this was a terrific follow-up to “The First Avenger”. While “The First Avenger” had some wonderful action scenes and a great 40s look, “The Winter Soldier” contains action scenes that are even better and the characters are way more interesting so if you enjoyed “The First Avenger”, you should really check this sequel out. For anybody that missed out on the first “Captain America” movie, I’d recommend watching that along with many of the Marvel movies as the films all take place in the same universe and will help make many of the twists in “The Winter Soldier” more meaningful.