A solid entry

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2011)

I really hope the Avengers movie is worth it, as they've been setting it up over five movies now.
This one is more blatant than the others, as it ties in both elements of the Iron Man movies and Thor.
Still, it has what you expect in a Captain America movie. Weakling agrees to radical experiment so he can fight in World War II, becomes a superhero. Can't complain, it had what you expected.
So the elements you'd expect in a movie like this.
Chris Evans as Captain America- He's pretty solid, the character has depth and is likable. There were a couple of minutes where I thought they might do another "Superhero with Daddy Issues" when we heard his father died in World War I, but they didn't dwell on them. (Seriously, are you going to call the new hero group "The Avengers" or "Why didn't you love me?"
Bucky Barnes is here, too, but he's an adult. Pre-Teen sidekicks were all the rage in Golden Age comics, but there's just something creepy about child endangerment. So Bucky is an adult contemporary before he gets whacked.
And we have the Howling Commandos... why not.
The guy who steals the movie is Tommy Lee Jones. I'm almost ready to forgive him for messing up Two-Face in "Batman Forever".
The whole movie takes place in a sanitized, romanticized version of World War II. And it looks great.
The female lead was great, and the guy who played Howard Stark was believable as the father of the Robert Downey character in the Iron Man movies.
But no superhero movie is really complete without a villain, is it? In this one, we have The Red Skull. Pretty close to what you expect from the comics, and one of the more effective antagonists we've seen in these movies.
So overall, a good movie, fun to watch, let's move on to the Avengers.