Standard Popcorn flick with lots of red white and blue.

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2012)

As an origin story, Captain America is interesting in that is takes a surprisingly short amount of time to turn its character into the hero, whereas X-Men first class and Green Lantern (other blockbusters of the same summer) needed almost their entire running length to do this. The problem with the Captain America approach is that once the human becomes superhuman, he ceases to become a character.
Captain America is a well executed action movie, relying on choreography not CGI to sell the product, and as a story, it gets from A-Z in a rather fluid fashion. The problem is that it is an action movie full of boring people. Nobody, with the exception of Hayley Atwell (representing feminism in the WWII war effort) is all that interesting, least of all Chris Evans as the hero. As depicted by the unfolding of the plot here, The improbability that this guy would become Captain America is surprisingly high. If the movie took itself a bit less seriously, this might be easier to swallow.
The film comes with a lame and rather unsatisfactory ending. Needless to say, it is an ending that opens the doors for a sequel. While I wont argue that Captain America doesn't deserve one, it may be not a memorable enough film to make you want more. It's a standard popcorn flick, no more no less.