All-American superhero fun.

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2014)

With its clean-cut all-American hero, beautiful heroine, nasty Nazi villains, and airborne action finalé, Captain America reminds me of Joe Johnston's earlier 1991 WWII 'superhero' movie, The Rocketeer; like that film, this Marvel superhero origin story proves to be a solidly entertaining adventure, but one that never really knocks the ball out of the park.
In my opinion, Johnston has always been a competent action director, and knows how to use his special effects to best effect, and here he once again provides a very slick and entertaining popcorn movie, but he's yet to make a film that has really blown my socks off. Captain America comes close at times, but lacks that special wow factor to make it a bona fide classic of the genre.
Still, it's undemanding fun for the duration, never pretending to be anything more than a rollicking World War tale designed to cleverly tie in this character with the other Avengers; and it's certainly more enjoyable than the drearier superhero movies of recent years—I'll take this film over dreadfully overblown nonsense like The Dark Knight or Man of Steel any day of the week!
I look forward to The Winter Soldier, which by all accounts is even better