Unbelievable...

Rating: 3/10 (15 April 2012)

... meaning that nothing in the film is believable; not the chemistry between Captain America (Evans) and Peggy Carter (Atwell), not the characters, especially not the antagonist, not even the fight scenes.
Let me elaborate:
I like action films, I love the over-the-top fight scenes and the "I can save the planet" idea. I find them entertaining and fun. But this one made me fall asleep twice. Literally. I kept waiting for something to happen, a climax of some sort, but no. The biggest thing in the film is the transformation from Steve Rogers to Captain America.
Red Skull is pointless. They could have had this film without the antagonist. He just finds the Tesseract, orders Zola around and then pulls off his mask. He never even says anything like "I want to conquer the world" or whatever. And the way he dies is... I had hoped they would make the Captain the hero, not Red Skull the victim of his gluttony. He's not a genius, no big tactician, no nothing. Just something to fill an empty space. Too bad...
agent Carter and Steve Rogers are supposed to bring a sort of chemistry on screen, chemistry that I failed to notice. It's just staring back and forth, a bit of googly eyes and one kiss. I get that in the 40s people weren't as frivolous as they are now, but still...
The fighting... well, it could have been WAY better, but it's just very fast, very dark (as in the light is dim) and it basically goes like this "Pow, throws the shield, hits 2 on the head, the shield comes back, he wins the fight."
And the ending made me feel I had watched a really long teaser trailer for the upcoming "The Avengers" (which I can't wait for).
The dialogs though are quite nice and funny at times.
If you like comic book adaptations, you might still be disappointed. I think kids would enjoy it though.