America Still Needs Your Help!

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2011)

I must admit, I started liking Captain America after the arcade back in 1992 entitled "Captain America and The Avengers." Then after that, I got a copy of that horrid straight to video port simply titled "Captain America". I could tell the movie was trying, and it had potential, but it really fell apart as the movie dragged on. But flash forward to present day and Hollywood revives Captain America again with "First Avenger: Captain America". I can say one thing, it was better than that straight to video version.
The film opens when a crew in the middle of a snowy field. They find what appears to be a ship or a vessel and they go inside. It looks very alien-like, and I was expecting something to attack them but instead they find Captain America's shield frozen in ice. Then we are quickly introduced to our main villain, Red Skull (played by the awesome Hugo Weaving)and he finds some blue cube thing that's called hydra or something. Then he kill someone to prove he's a bad guy.
Then we are introduced to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and he's the little guy trying to join the Army. He gets bullied, but a doctor who looks suspiciously like the doctor from Pan's Labyrinth takes an interest in him and puts him through an experiment to make him a super soldier. That's when he becomes Captain America. After he avenges the doctor's death from some random goon, his superior officer (Tommy Lee Jones) puts him through some gigs across the nation, even some films, until he learns his true potential thanks to his love interest, Peggy (the smoking hot Hayley Atwell). Then Captain America fights the war against Red Skull.
I must say that build up to Captain America is great. In fact, this film was a joy to watch. My only problems with the film centers around the main villain. He was way too uninteresting. Even the final fight at the end was weak. The writing of this villain was a major setback to me as everyone else on the film carried it quite well. Hugo Weaving is an awesome actor and he did the best he could with the material he got. It's just a shame that his character was written rather flat and dull.
It's not to say that the film was boring, as I mentioned it was a joy to watch. I still think X-Men: Origins was probably the best comic book movie of the summer with Captain America being second. A friend of mine once denied that there ever was a Captain America movie. Now I think he can finally admit that there is one now.