Good start, but disappointing action.

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 2015)

IMO The beginning had a strong performance from Chris Evans and Stanley Tucci. Steve Rogers is an extreme patriotic but weak and skinny guy who wants to fight at the front for his country. On the night before the serum injections, in this scene particular, both actors made a brilliant performance. The visual effects for downscaling Rogers body looked odd but still believable and I loved the comedic references on his body. The film crew did a good job in making a 1940s New York environment.
When the film was playing in Europe it only went downwards. I expected cool WWII action sequences, but all we got were super dumb stormtrooper likes with incredible advanced weaponry. The Tesseract would have worked when only Red Skull would have benefited from it. But by giving its powers to the whole army (weapons) the soldiers needed to be stupid so that the villains are not overpowered.
Speaking of overpowered, Captain America had not one single scratch and never real difficulties in fighting. There were no big obstacles he had to overcome. The only worthy fight was against Red Skull. In that fight I liked quite a lot the no gravity sequence when the plane nosedived. But the rest of the action was a huge letdown. The action was only sometimes good, but often not well choreographed and too predictable. For a budget of 140 million it could have been way better. When I watch a comic book movie I expect great action, especially when it is set in WWII.
The last negative point is the CGI. Worst of all was Red Skull's face. It looked like a plastic mask for Halloween. Especially for such an important character and in the year of 2011 they should have put more effort in his face.
All in all, the movie was decent, but if it wasn't for the good performance of the actors (I also loved the German accent btw) the movie would have been a disaster. Don't get me wrong, the movie was a good entertainment but failed to use its great potential. The comedy went well for me.The soundtrack fitted well into the film.