Pretty lousy

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2011)

In the intro, investigators find some type of flying object near the north pole. In it is Captain America's shield.
Rewind to the early 40s, in intro 2, an evil Nazi general finds Odin's tesseract in Norway, the most amazing source of power and kills its guardian.
A skinny and bullied kid is desperate to join the army in WWII. A kind army scientist recruits him for a special type of experiment. It will enhance his abilities, but also his mental state. Since he is a good person he'll make an excellent superperson. The experiment succeeds and Rogers becomes bionic: stronger and faster. That same moment he gets to try out his new skills as a Nazi infiltrated the experiment, blew up the lab, and killed the scientist.
We find out about the scientist, he used to work in Nazi Germany and the general was his first test subject for the strength enhancing serum, but also went crazy because of it.
When Rogers finds out a friend or relative is held captive by the general he decides to take action and stop being a show monkey for a sleazy senator who uses Captain America to get donations.
Captain America rescues all the POWs and returns to base. He saw a map back at the general's HQ and realized that he wants to control the world, starting with Europe using amazing weapons created with Odin's energy. So he and a group of soldiers decide to take on the general. Even though they are undermanned and underpowered, Captain America succeeds at tracking down the general as he now tries to bomb the US.
For a summer blockbuster, Captain America is dull and boring. It is too long with too many scenes that should have been edited out. It's been a while since we've seen villains so incompetent. They are overwhelming in number, have more powerful weapons, yet can't manage to even put a scratch on any US soldier. Like the editing and writing, direction isn't up to par either. The acting by Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones, and Hugo Weaving are excellent but can't save this movie. Captain America is miscast making it very difficult to root for this guy, when the evil general is so much more interesting. Perhaps teens and pre-teens will like this movie. It's mild enough, but for anyone older than that this movie is a failure.