Why is this getting such good reviews?

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2011)

When I walked in to see Captain America I wasn't expecting much, I've never been a huge fan of superhero movies. As the movie went on I was pleasantly surprised at first, I really liked the characters and thought "hey maybe this will be good after all!" and then it happened, Captain America threw his shield, it hit a bad guy, and it bounced back. At that point they lost me...as if the stupid red mask wasn't enough. There was no development for the love story between Steve and his little British dime. When he crashed at the end I simply found myself not caring at all. There is a reason superhero movies don't work, they don't feel real. The only ones that work is Christopher Nolan's Batman series, and these work because they make Batman vulnerable, you can relate to him by seeing his pain, Captain America didn't have that, I don't think he got a single scratch. It wasn't all bad though, Chris Evans did a good job, and so did Hugo Weaving before he took his mask off and showed his red face. Tommy Lee Jones provided a few laughs, but it just wasn't enough to make it a good movie. Was it a terrible movie? No. Was it a good movie? No. It was simply average, 6/10