A decent film for Captain America

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2011)

Right. So the first thing I definitely liked about the movie was the choice for the role of Caps. Chris Evans truly looks perfect for this role. I saw his ideal face in in the red, white and blue costume, and, as cheesy as it sounds, I actually thought that he truly looks like an Amerian hero. His determined look and serious Brooklyn dialect goes amazingly well with the portrayal of this iconic character. And this is not cheesy (I'm addressing the people, unfamiliar with this character right here) because Captain America is one of the first major comic book heroes in history. He's as equally important, if not more, as Superman. And that is why the film makers made him look so 'flawless'. Because he comes from a REALLY long time ago. Even the story is set in the 40's, when the superhero world was much simpler. Good guys were good. Bad guys were bad. That's it. Not like modern superhero's, where's there's a twist around every corner, and the bad guy turns out to be the good guy, and the good guy turns out to be the bad guy, and so on... I was really glad to finally get a really simple, but quite enjoyable hero in a movie to lay my eyes upon. Of course Chris Evans was not the only star of the film. The cast is superb (Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, etc.). Hugo Weaving surely gives an equally impressive performance next to Chris Evans. Probably even more impressive. He really managed to pull of the German accent portraying the German Nazi evildoer. Also a very clear character. A perfect bad guy, with no noble or kind values. Pure evil. The only problem about Hugo Weaving in this picture was that there was too little screen time for his role. His character was really appealing to me. Frankly, Hugo Weaving was actually the first reason, I wanted to go see this film. And it turned out to be a similar situation to Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight". Everyone who loved that film, loved it for one good reason - Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker (of course that's not the only good thing about that movie). And as many times as I see "the Dark knight", I can not get enough of the Joker. I wanted him to get more screen time. And it's the same with Hugo Weaving here. He could definitely had more on screen time. It felt as if Hugo Weaving wasn't 'maxed out'. And all of the other characters are really appealing because of their 'simplicity'.
The Plot will definitely satisfy the comic book fan. It really resembles the comic story, which I really enjoyed. Because often, when a film studio decides to make a comic hero film, but DOESN'T follow the story in the comic, and makes up their own plot, it usually ends up bad. However. The people who are unfamiliar with Captain America, will probably not be impressed by the plot, because it does not stand out as something new or gripping. You have to know the comic to enjoy the story, because it's filled with details from it. Speaking of which, it was really entertaining how they used pieces and fragments in this film from other recent Marvel movies, like "Thor", "Ironman" or "the Incredible Hulk".
So basically it is determined by your familiarity with Captain America, whether you'll like this movie or not so much or not at all. If you are a fan, I believe you'll at least enjoy it, otherwise not so likely.