Real American Hero...Was Hoping for Better

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2011)

OK...so this movie looks GREAT...the actually look of it. And, while it's fun to root for the little guy, the story on this is a bust and there are some key ridiculous moments:
1. If you're in a convertible traveling at about 200mph and the blades of an airplane are over your head, and a drop off from a cliff awaits you at the end of the runway...the idea that you'd make time for a kiss...? Seriously??
2. Film was trying sooooo hard to be "PC." Poor Derek Luke and Kenneth Choi. They are the only minorities in the WHOLE movie. The film goes out of it's way to bring attention to that fact, pointing out how "American" the Asian guy is because he's from Jersey and how smart the black guy is because he speaks several languages. The biggest farce is that these two men were serving along, and were accepted within, the all white squad. NEVER WOULDA HAPPENED. For making American race-relations seem better than they were...this film gets a big WTF?? On the flip side...unlike "Saving Ryan's Privates," "Band of Spielberg's Romanticized Brothers," etc. or any other WWII show/film...at least Captain America rightly put minorities in the film and didn't ignore that countless minorities were there, gave their lives and got little/no recognition for their contributions. So, on that note...Kudos.
3. Best propaganda film since the original "Superman" with Chris Reeve. And my god...how much crap can the Germans take? I mean yes...they brought us Nazis, but that's the only way we hardly ever see Germans on screen....as the crazy Nazi or sex slave selling maniacal glutton, etc. I think Hollywood's trained us to equate a German accent with = "Bad guy." Can you imagine watching this movie if you're not an American?
4. What was that ending? "You've been asleep for 70 years?" In a coma? In a cryogenic state? Does that mean this guy can't die? Talk about a crappy convenient ending.
5. The fact that this was just a set up next year's "Avengers." For those of us who stuck around after the credits, we were "treated" to a sneak peek at next year's sequel to this crap. That's when, finally, this movie made sense...because it was made to roll out the other.
All in all, it's a nice looking piece of cotton candy made with bad sugar. You know the kind. When you see it in the bag, all nice and pink (or blue), you can't wait to get your hands on it. But, then you bite into the stuff and it tastes like it was made from discarded sugar cane that was plucked out of a Columbian sewer. But, you eat it anyway because you paid your $2 for it.
(1.5 stars/4)...Makes me salivate for the final Batman.