Another Generic Superhero Movie

Rating: 5/10 (23 July 2011)

If you thought this movie was "awesome" or like a " tour de force" or something, you are probably either 8 years old or a total idiot. I went into this movie with high hopes. I saw some trailers and i thought it looked pretty cool. Growing up I was a pretty big marvel fan. For some reason I felt that Captain America was going to be good. I was wrong, it was just as pointless and boring as all the other movies marvel has put out as of late. The movie had a good beginning. The back story was enough to make you wonder what would happen next, but then my curiosity ended as soon as Steve Rogers was dropped into battle. I'll just get to the point.
My issues:
1- Captain America is invincible. I can't understand why every dumb villain in this movie was just dying to fist fight Captain America. Every time CA entered a room everyone just immediately threw away their future rifles the moment they saw him. I laughed at one point when one of the hydra guys pulled out a switch blade(Use your gun idiot!). So anyways Captain America was pretty much never in danger the entire movie, he was an unstoppable ass-kicking machine. At no point did you feel he was challenged or that he might not succeed. There was little to no adversity with the exception of a guy with a switch blade and a couple incompetent cumbersome flame troopers.
2- Women all over the army? And hot ones too! Maybe I didn't live through the 40's, but i'm pretty sure that these dames weren't running around with the troops firing thompson machine guns.
3- Red skulls face looked like a cheap rubber halloween mask. There was nothing menacing about him or his cheap red face. Were we suppose to be horrified when he took off his mask.
4- There was little to no development of Red Skull, all we know is he wants to attack everywhere. Lame.
5- Those hydra troops really need to lose their salute. That whole both hands in the air thing was too much. They might as well have just all shouted "derp" in unison.
So anyways it seemed as though the writing staff came up with some good ideas the first day, got excited, went to lunch, and never came back.