Chris Evans’ 10 Best Movies and TV Shows

The best Chris Evans films and TV shows have almost been overshadowed by his work on comic book films. Evans’ career was primarily defined by his role as Steve Rogers, when he took on the character of Captain America for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2011 and carried that role until his final appearance in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, where he passed the mantle to another MCU hero, Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson. Evans said he plans to slow down his acting, but hasn’t done so yet.

While most people know him for his leading role in the MCU, he has a much broader and more diverse filmography than some fans might believe. He has played another superhero in the past like The Human Torch in Fox Marvel films, as well as comic book adaptations, TMNT, Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldand Snowpiercer. He also played roles in major comedies such as Not another teen movie and even more blockbuster efforts like the 2024 holiday action film Red.

10

The Losers (2010)

Jensen

One of the comic book adaptations that few people talk about in Chris Evans’ career happened in 2010, when he starred in the action film The losers. Many people may not even know that it is a comic book adaptation, as there are no superheroes and it is mainly an action film with several familiar faces, in a twist on the same story told in The A team decades earlier. Based on the comics by Andy Diggle and Jock, The losers tells the story of an elite black ops team betrayed by the US government and sent on the run.

Chris Evans is Jensen, the team’s technological genius let alone the action hero he played in the MCU. Joining him in the all-star cast are his teammates Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Roque (Idris Elba), Aisha (Zoe Saldaña), Pooch (Columbus Short) and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada), while Jason Patrick takes on the role. paper. as his nemesis, the corrupt government official Max. The film received mixed reviews and average box office, but it was good to see Evans in a fun action film playing against type.

9

Gifted (2017)

Frank Adler

In the middle of his performance as Captain America, Chris Evans took a short break for a very different film. In 2017, the year between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity WarEvans starred in the drama film Gifted with McKenna Grace. The film follows an intellectually gifted seven-year-old child who ends up in the middle of a custody battle between his maternal uncle and maternal grandmother. Evans plays his uncle and guardian, Frank, while Lindsay Duncan plays his grandmother and Frank’s mother, Evelyn.

The main plot shows Frank wanting to do what he thinks is best for young Mary, sending her to public schools to be around normal kids. Frank knows the dangers of pushing his daughter away, as his sister and Mary’s mother was also a mathematical genius and died by suicide. Evelyn, however, feels that talented people are obligated to use their talents to advance society and move things forward. Gifted received positive reviews from critics, who praised Evans’ performanceas he shined in a more subdued role than usual.

8

Sunshine (2007)

James Mace

After taking on his first superhero roles in Fantastic Four series, Chris Evans has joined Danny Boyle’s sci-fi film, Sunshine. This was an intellectual science fiction psychological thriller written by Alex Garland, who also worked with Boyle on 28 days later. The film is set in 2057 with a group of astronauts trying to reignite a dying sun. Chris Evans is James Mace, the mission’s engineer, while Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Benedict Wong and others help round out the cast.

The film was a box office failure, but ended up winning many more fans when it was released on DVD and Blu-ray. While the idea of ​​reigniting the sun was complex, the story was actually driven by a man on the ship who had plans to stop the mission and send humanity skyward. Critics mostly praised the film, praising the twisty story and cast in general. Although Evans was only part of the cast, he carried his own and the film itself won the BAFTA Award for Best Technical Achievement.

7

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Jake Wyler

At one point in the early 2000s, parody films began to be released regularly, and almost all of them were panned by critics and audiences. However, the one that kicked off this season was actually pretty good and was also Chris Evans’ first major film role. Not another teen movie was, as its name suggests, a parody of mainstream teen films, specifically those from the 1980s. The main plot is the same as She is all thatthe 1999 film starring Freddie Prize Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook.

Chris Evans plays Jake, a football star at John Hughes High School in California (named after the creator of the The Breakfast Club). His girlfriend (Jaime Pressly) breaks up with him, so he bets his friends that he can turn nerdy Janey (Chyler Leigh) into prom queen. Evans is hilarious throughout the film. At one point, he imitates the infamous bikini scene with whipped cream from Varsity Bluesbut with him using it. When Molly Ringwald appears at the end to denounce the stupidity, the film reaches another level of brilliance.

6

Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)

Johnny Storm/Human Torch

Years before playing Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chris Evans played a different Marvel superhero. In the world of Fox Marvel, he played Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, in both Fantastic Four films. Neither received any kind of critical acclaim and the general public rejected them both, even though they were decent box office hits. However, Evans’ performance as Johnny Storm received some praise from comic book fans.

While none of these films have held up over time, Evans returned to the role in the 2024 MCU film Deadpool and Wolverine. This was a multiverse film, so Evans returned along with other non-MCU heroes from the past, including Blade, Elektra, and several members of the X-Men films. Evans was a standout, playing a foul-mouthed and reckless character, very much against the personality he developed as Captain America. It was a huge fan-favorite moment in a film that grossed more than $1.3 billion and received mostly positive reviews.

5

Knives Out (2019)

Hugh “Ransom” Drysdale

Chris Evans almost always plays the hero in his films. In some of his attempts to become evil, the results are often dismal, as in the critically panned Netflix action film. The Gray Man. However, he was at his best in Rian Johnson’s 2019 mystery crime film, Knives out. The film featured Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a world-famous private investigator clearly influenced by Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot as he takes a case to find out who killed a wealthy novelist.

Benoit has to deal with the novelist’s family, which includes a host of familiar faces including Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Katherine Langford and Chris Evans. All the relatives are suspects and Evans plays the son of Jamie Lee Curtis and Don Johnson, a character whose arrogance and dismissive attitude were as far from Steve Rogers as Evans could get. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay and helped start a new franchise.

4

The Snowpiercer (2013)

Curtis Everett

In 2013, Chris Evans joined the cast of the apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer. Based on the French graphic novel by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Kean-Marc Rochette, the story is set in a future where a new ice age has made life on Earth uninhabitable. However, the world’s richest people knew this was coming and paid for a seat on a self-sustaining train called Snowpiercer, which would keep them alive but always on the move.

The problem arose when many of the poor and oppressed realized what was happening and forced their way onto the train. As the rich had the military on their side, they allowed many of them to stay, but they were forced to live in the back cars of the train and treated them like cattle. This soon led to a revolution that threatened to destroy the train itself. Chris Evans is Curtis, the leader of the revolution. The film appeared on many critics’ year-end lists and even spawned a spin-off TV series.

3

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Chris Evans starred as Steve Rogers/Captain America in 11 Marvel Cinematic Universe films (some of them in cameos). This also included his own trilogy of films, although one of them was both an Avengers film and a Captain America film. In 2011, the MCU introduced Captain America in a World War II-era film where he helped the Allies fight the Nazis and Hydra to win the war and put an end to the threat of the Nazi rise to power.

However, the best Captain America film came three years later, when Cap discovered that some people in America still held Nazi ideals and many had taken places in the American government. Captain America: The Winter Soldier remains one of the best MCU films ever madea spy film that sees Cap teaming up with Black Widow and Falcon to fight against his own country while the Nazis on Hydra attempt a hostile takeover with their new weapon, the Soldier Winger. Critics gave the film a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

2

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)

Lucas Lee

In 2010, a year before joining the MCU as Captain America, Chris Evans starred as a minor villain in Edgar Wright’s comic book adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s film. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. This story was unlike almost any other comic book adaptation in that it was primarily a romantic young adult action film that showed a slacker named Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) trying to win the love of the mysterious Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). However, he first has to defeat his evil exes.

Chris Evans is one of her evil exesHollywood actor and skateboarder Lucas Lee. Of all the evil exes, he seems the least evil, but he still puts up an incredible fight against Scott throughout the film. The entire movie feels more like a video game adaptation than a comic book adaptation, and it might be the best video game movie ever made without being based on any game. The film became a huge cult classic and even spawned an anime spin-off on Netflix.

1

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Easily the most famous and beloved film of Chris Evans’ career was Avengers: Endgamethe film that ended the first phase of the main characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man died, Captain America retired, and the world moved on, all while delivering the most immersive and inspired battlefield sequence of any comic book movie. In the end, it was Iron Man and Captain America who helped bring emotion to the film and make it more than a big-budget spectacle.

Captain America had one of the best moments of any MCU film when he raised Thor’s hammer and said “Avengers Assemble”, something that became a meme thanks to recordings in theaters across the country, when the audience literally started applauding and applaud the scene. It was the example that proved how much Chris Evans helped create something that might never be replicated on the big screen again.