A great start for the now forming Avengers crew

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2018)

Captain America: The First Avenger is the start of the future avenger movies and the big jump into the now known MCU officially. With the biggest budget and most special effects in the MCU when it was released and a strong cast and stronger performances by an A list cast.
Man of the performances in this film come off amazingly and establish their roles very fast and strongly as well. Chris Evans starts does an amazing job as Steve Rogers/Captain America with the before and after the serum is injected into him. Giving this warm and comforting performance throughout making the audience feel like he has everything under control and contained. Similar cast members as well give just as good performances like Hayley Atwell as Peggy and Sebastian Stan as Bucky both. Playing important people in Steve's life and giving him different drives for his actions throughout the film. Even the more minor characters like Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dominic Cooper give amazing performances with their varying roles. MIne still being Cooper's performance as the ego driven, slightly mad genius Howard Stark. And of course Hugo Weaving surfacing again for yet another A+ Villain performance as Red Skull. Giving this feeling of constant concern and making the audience want to bite their nails throughout like his iconic performance as Mr. Smith in 'The Matrix'.
Directing wise this was Joe Johnston's first and last directing job with marvel but I personally think he did a good job overall. The direction in 'The Winter Soldier' and 'Civil War' though fixed any directing issues I had with this film amazingly though. I did feel that the overuse of fast cuts in many fight scenes got boring and repetitive especially towards the third act minus the final fight of course. And some of the shots of the shield anyone with basics in physics could look at it and question 'how is that shield bouncing particularly in that direction out of nowhere?' type of situation. But many shots were done beautifully by Johnston like the first act I thought was beautiful especially the motion capture work done on Evans to make him so small and weak.
Writing wise the script is overall very strong. Some lines of dialogue could've been a little smoother and not so exposition like. An example would be the first scene in the 40's with Red Skull retrieving the Tesseract. But the other scenes play very well with either providing lines of comedy to excellent storytelling provided with great visuals to tell it better.
The special effects look the best in The First Avenger by far in the MCU movies coming out over time. A few scenes with small Steve though shows wear and some lacking points of the special effects crew but the rest of the film looks beautiful especially the explosions and various hits done by Cap's shield.
Captain America: The First Avenger is a great film and a positive start to the now trilogy for Steve Rogers/Captain America.
Captain America: The First Avenger gets an 8.25/10