Not for the reasons you may think, but not very good

Rating: 6/10 (29 April 2016)

Let's start by admitting that when you decide to watch a film about a hero called Captain America, you ought to expect both the corny and the borderline ridiculous.
Surprisingly, 'Muricanism is not much of a problem with the film. It has potential: a superhero film in a period setting with the ever reliable Hugo Weaving as a Nazi villain is not a bad way to start. Buuuuuut....whereas Captain America as a character proves quite less propagandistic than expected, the story itself doesn't avoid silliness. World War 2 is fought by Americans with a couple of "ethnically diverse" characters assisting them...well, more or less, as what we see is not exactly WWII but something like an American infiltration on European soil exclusively for the purpose of hunting down the Hydra project. The rest of the war isn't there. The villain has a 24th century airplane but 1937 viewing screens (ok, that was clearly on purpose, but seemed a rather pointless and silly curiosity). The US army has (seemingly) non-segregated black soldiers and women officers - although sure, this isn't really the place to confront serious issues.
But more to the point, the plot has some 80's action films' solutions. A battalion of bad guys with superguns use them as clubs. A guy who invades a Nazi camp with a huge American shield on his back and just walks around unnoticed freeing prisoners without being armed. A gun that atomizes people but can't scratch a shield (ok, that's a problem with the comic, not the film). The shield attracts every shot fired from a thousand people. A car chases a plane and someone jumps aboard it. I mean, yeah, I know, it's a Marvel film. But then why do I find it more believable when Bruce Willis does it? A scheme to catch the bad guy that relies entirely on Captain America getting captured but not being killed on sight. Because.....well, let's just hope they won't kill him and then we'll just jump through the window..why didn't we do that from the beginning? And last but not least, the hero crashes the plane in the Arctic. For no obvious reason, but that's not what I am getting at. Though he could easily fly the smaller plane 5 minutes before (without any training) and ummm, re-insert it in the mothership, but now he's out of skills. The plane has by the way reached the Arctic after taking off from the Alps an hour or less before. And is headed straight for...New York? Fast and strange route. I don't know. That last part made no sense.