yawn

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2011)

We start off promisingly with lots of retro 1930's sights and sounds, wartime patriotism, Nazis, ancient artifacts and adventure. But once our hero becomes Captain America the movie quickly dissipates into a formulaic mess
The weak plot is the biggest letdown. The Red Skull plans to wipe out various capital cities across the globe. We are given no explanation as to why, and are left to assume that his motive is simply 'world domination' in the style of Dr Evil. This leads to lots of chasing around ending with a climactic battle between Cpt America and the Red Skull in which his best known comic book adversary is wasted after just a couple of minutes of one on one fighting because.. he drops his magic cube. oops!
Other dull aspects of the film include the score, which is one of the most unmemorable I've heard for awhile. I could not recall it even during the movie, and I challenge you to remember a single bar. The audio is repetitive and irritating.. massive overuse of the camera warm up sound ('weeee'), which has now been used everywhere, for every weapon owned by the Red Skull. Customary use of Wilhelm scream, used in spectacularly unimaginative and overt fashion. Very uninspired
Red Skulls makeup/cgi looks atrocious by the way and the guy that plays Captain America is thoroughly uncharismatic. This whole film for me was paint by numbers and a money machine for a sequel, kids lunch boxes and the avengers, which I am also expecting to be crap. When other movies like Batman set the bar so high, movies like Captain America are becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate