Average film but cap rocks

Rating: 7/10 (10 March 2020)

Captain america the first avenger stars chris evans as steve rogers in his third superhero outing after fantastic four and push.
Set in 1940s, it narrates the story of steve rogers who is trying passionately to join the US army but is constantly rejected due to his poor physical condition. At this time, he's spotted by Dr. Erksine who at that time is working on a super soldier experimentation program and chooses steve for his experiment because of the latter's pure heart. Steve joins the army and falls in love with agent peggy carter. Steve is sent for the experiment and turns successful giving him super physical strength. But few minutes after the experiment erksine is shot by a hydra agent leading shield in dilemma because without erksine one cant successfully experiment with other soldiers. Hence, steve is reduced as a character actor for army plays. But steve proves his worth by saving american soldiers from hydra camp thus becoming captain america. He fights many wars along with his best friend bucky and lock horns with hydra leader red skull.
What I loved in the film is the character of steve rogers. Such an honest and sincere persons are rare to find. One could understanding his qualities in that fake grenade scene. The transformation of the short and skinny steve rogers to tall and muscular captain america was great. Hugo weaving played red skull very well. Though I didn't find the love track of peggy and steve intriguing but it managed to play an important part in future films of steve. Also his friendship with bucky. In civil war, steve didn't support bucky just because he was his friend but because he was always the one who gave him moral support in his bad times. That's what in one scene bucky says that I am not following captain america but that skinny guy who is so idiot enough to get beaten up. If you have seen chris evans off screen then you will be shocked to see how such a cool and fun loving guy can play a no-nonsense steve rogers.
But the film has some drawbacks too. First is the film's narration is slow which is not good for a superhero film. Second is film lacks humour because of which it becomes the least favorite mcu film. And the action scenes are not upto the mark.
Overall, captain america the first avenger lacks the popcorn entertainment of a regular mcu film but is watchable because of chris evans performance and good presentation of 1940s.