What a coincidence, I just watched it last night. I'd say that I also generally enjoyed it. Chris Evans was definitely hamming it up in his role, but I didn't mind it so much because the character was written to be kind of unbelievably assholish anyway. The ham kind of fit. Gosling played almost the exact same character he's played in every action movie, but I do enjoy him in that kind of role.
There's definitely the one super capable woman character, but she is the only one. And to be fair she does get beat in her final fight scene, only surviving because her male opponent lets her off the hook (though that doesn't excuse her first fight scene where she handily defeats several men bigger than her, and also doesn't excuse the frankly insane accuracy with a grenade launcher and RPG while under fire running in full sprint). So...one point against uber-capable and like 10 in the other direction. The only other two female characters (besides the kid) I can think of weren't shown to be good at fighting, though they were shown to be good at blowing themselves up and shooting already defeated and exhausted men.
What a coincidence, I just watched it last night. I'd say that I also generally enjoyed it. Chris Evans was definitely hamming it up in his role, but I didn't mind it so much because the character was written to be kind of unbelievably assholish anyway. The ham kind of fit. Gosling played almost the exact same character he's played in every action movie, but I do enjoy him in that kind of role.
There's definitely the one super capable woman character, but she is the only one. And to be fair she does get beat in her final fight scene, only surviving because her male opponent lets her off the hook (though that doesn't excuse her first fight scene where she handily defeats several men bigger than her, and also doesn't excuse the frankly insane accuracy with a grenade launcher and RPG while under fire running in full sprint). So...one point against uber-capable and like 10 in the other direction. The only other two female characters (besides the kid) I can think of weren't shown to be good at fighting, though they were shown to be good at blowing themselves up and shooting already defeated and exhausted men.