Captain America: The First Avenger

The Marvel Studio is certainly on a hot streak now releasing superhero movies for their upcoming The Avengers movies, and Captain America was the last story to be told before this. Seeing that Thor came out earlier in the year to good reviews and a healthy box-office considering he is a lesser known hero and Captain America has done even better with critics and a stronger opening. Added to that Fox’s reboot of X-Men was able to get that series right after the mess Brett Ratner left it in.

Captain America start of in 1942 with Steve Rogers who is played by Chris Evans. Steve is a skinny boy with several health problems, still he wants to join the American Army. Steve have tried several times to enlist but due to hes bad health he is shut down several times. When Steve once more decides to try to get enlisted a scientist by the name of Abraham Erskine comes to se how determined he is to join and will pull some strings to get him in the army, and from here on the story of Captain America will unfold.

I would say that Captain America is at best interesting in the first part when Steve Roger is going trough hes training in the military to find his purpose. During those scenes you will get to se some well written humor which is highly entertaining.

The second part of the movie was just plain boring for me. Do not get me wrong, the action was not bad, but when i se all these futuristic sets and high technology weaponry it becomes dull really fast. As the movies was supposed to take place during World War II i was hoping to se at least ONE historically accurate weapon, gun or heck even a building that looks accurate for the time, i did not get to se this and believe that the World War II scenario was totally wasted.

While im talking about buildings and so on i must say that i was entirely annoyed by the sets. The ones that have Captain America in them are just fine, but if you look ad the sets for Hydra they once again look entirely futuristic with nothing more then annoying silver color. Again, What is the point of it being in World War II if you remove anything that remotely reassemble anything from that timeline.

Seeing Captain America fight made med facepalm as well. The movie will portray him as being really powerfull, but you will never get to se him being unstoppable. His shield will never kill anyone, if i remember my comic right hes shield is supposed to cut through people. Violence is something that they keep to a very minimum in this movies.

I was hoping i could say something good about he visuals and the special effects, however, my feelings are quite mixed. I was hoping it could have a but more photo-realistic feel to it but instead we got a little to much like
“the World of Tomorrow and Sky Captain”. That said, the use of wide lenses did helped them out and made the feeling more realistic due to the massive amounts of CGI.

In the end it is determined by your familiarity with Captain America and the Marvel universe whether you will like this movie or not so much or not at all. If you are a fan, I believe you’ll at least enjoy it, otherwise not so likely.