Fun but somewhat messy origin story

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2020)

This review contains spoilers.
Captain America: The First Avenger is a superhero action movie that premiered in 2011. The movie is directed by Joe Johnston, with the screenplay written by Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely. The movie stars Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, and Hayley Atwell. The movie follows Steve Rogers as he attempts to enlist in the United States military during World War Two.
Captain America: The First Avenger is a solid origin story for Captain America. All of the pieces of an origin story are here in this movie. The movie has visuals, action, character, and solid casting. The movie also has a memorable villain in Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving. There are some deficiencies in the movie that detract from the experience.
The story in this movie has weird beats. The movie focuses on Steve Rogers but it had to inject the Nazi organization of Hydra. Hydra is the classic villainous organization that the heroes always find themselves fighting against. The movie spends much of the story building up Steve Rogers for the confrontation against Hydra to be over quickly. The rogue organization of Hydra does not have as much characterization for an organization that is so strong in the 1940s. It felt quick that as soon as Steve Rogers entered the scene to fight against Hydra the main headquarters and bases are destroyed.
Captain America: The First Avenger, like its previously released movie in the cinematic universe Iron Man 2, builds up the cinematic universe of Marvel. In this way, I felt that the movie had much on its menu to handle. It needed to create Hydra, Captain America, and also the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I would have preferred that the movie handle only Hydra and Captain America in this movie and choose to have the world-building to be more in the background. The movie instead focuses on the Tesseract which is the important link across these early Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
I would recommend 'Captain America: The First Avenger'.
Grade: C