Good first half, mediocre second half

Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2011)

Captain America is one of those movies that SHOULD'VE been good. The whole first half of the movie was very well done and seeing a weak kid turn into a buff dude was entirely awesome. Seeing him in training was also kind of funny and interesting at the same time. But that was the first half. The second half was much less interesting...
The second half of the movie suffers from some surprisingly boring action. While action isn't awful, seeing all of the futuristic sets and high tech weaponry is really dull. When a movie has the WW2 scenario, usually expect seeing as least ONE historically accurate weapon, gun or heck even a building that looks accurate for the time. I think the whole WW2 scenario was entirely wasted. There wasn't even ONE tank in the movie that wasn't futuristic or that didn't exist.
Another problem this movie suffers if entirely annoying sets. The sets that are with the Americans are fine, but the sets with the Hydra are entirely futuristic and everything they have is this annoying silver color. What is the point of it being in WW2 if there is not one scrap of evidence that what is happening is actually happening in WW2. I know its based off the comics which have Captain America in WW2, but still very little of WW2 is actually seen in this movie.
Seeing Captain America fight was also a little sad as well. There is some slapstick action... slapstick action? Yes there is some. I guess the movie portrays him as being really powerful, but never does it show him being an unstoppable machine. His shield NEVER kills anyone, and if I remember correctly his shield is supposed to be able to cut through people. Violence in this movie is kept to a very minimum. While there are some mildly violent parts, you never see close-up action of Captain America bashing peoples skulls in, or breaking peoples legs and such. You just see him toss people around and him throwing a shield. The gun action is also very weak, and I really expected more guns to be used that WEREN'T laser guns.
The final action sequence was OK, but it could've been a lot better (just like the rest of the movie). The biggest issue throughout the entire movie besides there being no WW2 weaponry or sets, is that this movie has crazy messed up physics. I know its a super hero movie and I know that they are using high tech stuff, but still. Those flying helicopter things were entirely silly (and yes I do know that those did really exist but never worked). Also the giant plane when it performs a dive bomb and corrects itself at an 80 degree angle? It would've been torn to pieces.
I guess my review sounded pretty picky, and you might ignore what I'm saying because you honestly don't care about accuracy. Which is fine. If you don't care about that kind of stuff then you may love this movie. But to me I can withstand a few inaccuracies in a movie, but when the entire movie is filled with back to back inaccuracies and issues it becomes almost unbearable to watch without talking to commentating.
6/10