"I'm just a kid from Brooklyn."

Rating: 7/10 (14 August 2011)

The film business is flooded with superhero films. I think that the audience is being tired of those films too. These movies always have to start with this origin movie - movie where our hero/superhero is introduced and these origin movies are pretty much the same story over and over every single time. They are interesting if we've got an interesting character like Iron Man, Wolverine, Hulk - men with flaws. I've never liked Superman - he was just too (for lack of a better word) good. The same thing is with Captain America, he is such a goodie goodie. That brings me to the main problem with this movie - the characters. The characters in this movie are not very much established, they are very one-dimensional and so the audience can't create any feelings for them.
Chris Evans has proved before that he is a good actor, playing this cocky Johnny Storm, or nerdy hacker in The Losers. Here he plays a wimpy and skinny Steve Rogers, a man turned through "science" into a superman. He has just one goal to help people fighting in the war. Hayley Atwell is very good looking woman but she has no purpose than just to provide a love story which is very uninteresting in this movie, not like the other Marvel movies. Hugo Weaving is great as usual but again pretty one-dimensional character. Tommy Lee Jones stands out as the Colonel Chester Phillips. He has the best one-liners in the movie. Tommy Lee Jones never disappoints and delivers another grumpy man turned to faith in the main hero. (I've always liked how they incorporated a Stan Lee's cameo into the movie and into the plot but here it was quite unnecessary)
When you go see a blockbuster summer movie, you expect great action scenes. Well, you don't get them here. The action scenes are very average and the addition of throwing shield as a weapon is going to change much. The setting of the movie is within this futuristic retro World War II and I didn't like this messing with history, that Captain was fighting this science Nazi division and all that. I know I shouldn't take this movie too seriously but all these futuristic machines in this retro setting were just way over the top.
Another thing is this movie feels very rushed, there isn't much happening but it just quickly wants to get to the end, so we would be excited for the next big movie from Marvel studios, The Avengers. Sure, it makes you excited for The Avengers, especially if you wait till the end of the credits as usual for a little teaser, but I wanted high quality movie like Thor or Iron Man. The movie is just too straightforward, full of clichés and it has way too formulaic plot. The film starts out well, in an interesting way but when our main hero is transformed into Captain America it just goes down the same route we have seen before in hundreds of other movies. Nothing new here.