A poor stepping stone towards The Avengers

Rating: 3/10 (4 August 2011)

As you can tell from the title of this review, I wasn't pleased at all. I'll try and keep it short & to the point: - How do you make a super hero look 'super'? You make the bad guy look unbeatable. This was not the case in Captain America. I have no idea what his 'evil plan' was. He had a weird obsession with a glowing box, and nothing really got explained. The bad guy needs to be a threat.

And to continue the common theme that the bad guy wasn't that bad, I think I could've taken out his army. They were pathetic.

The love story. This goes from a slight crush to full on love in a matter of minutes. He has a picture of her in his compass, nobody else find that creepy? - It's the 1940's. Where are they getting this technology from? They have some form of ray guns but they lock their prisoners in old rusty lock & key, metal bar cells. There's no continuity. Plus the bad guy has a super car. Please, someone explain.

Why didn't the bombs in the plane go off? The only thing that kept me interested was Hayley Atwell. Chris Evans was OK. I'm sure he'll be good come the Avengers. Tommy Lee Jones was just poor one liners. Hugo Weaving was poor. Red Skull proved little threat. Sammy L. Jackson has one line at the end. Pointless.

All in all, I felt they rushed it. Isn't Captain America supposed to be the leader of the Avengers? Well, for him to be the main guy, his film felt like a minor stepping stone towards The Avengers.