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I thought it was alright, but I certainly didn't like it as much as everyone else. It was definitely an improvement on the first movie, but just as the first Captain America movie was (IMO, obviously) the weakest of the Phase 1 movies, this is probably my least favourite of Phase 2 so far. I think my problem with the Cap's movies is that they don't really have anything unique about them like the other heroes' do.

And this is the first of the MCU's 'action-packed climaxes' in which I got kind of bored and started to daydream. This wasn't a problem in The Avengers, because, well, The Avengers started the whole 'action ending' thing off, nor was it a problem in Iron Man 3, because of the variety of the Iron suits and the unique setting (all the others take place in a major city) and it wasn't as much a problem in Thor: The Dark World because of all the crazy stuff going on with the portals and altered gravity (plus I had visited London before so recognised some of the places they were fighting in). The end of this movie didn't really have anything I hadn't seen before, so I started to be a bit 'meh' about the whole thing.

I was also disappointed with how The Falcon was treated in the movie. Before watching the Captain America movies I had read The Definitive Captain America so I was excited to see Falcon in this one, but I was kind of disappointed.

My reaction wasn't all negative though, because there were some good scenes in the movie. The scene where Nick Fury was under attack had a genuine sense of tension, thanks to the fact that this was the first non-main-character action scene and the fight in the elevator was a definite highlight, with the direction conveying a real sense of claustrophobia.