Something's not right

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2011)

i approached the film really wanting it to trash the 1990 garbage for good. and i left it almost not knowing what to say.
i like the story for the most part. but not the plot and, although i enjoy a few cheese sometimes, the script was just pelted with too much cliché'. i am someone who takes the dictum "suspension of disbelief" to heart but when an element subtracts to the integrity of a film instead of solidifying the piece, then something must be wrong.
i never liked the decision to put Chris Evans on the role, not because i doubt his ability to give justice to the role, but because he's already an icon to another marvel franchise as Human Torch in the Fantastic Four. If the Marvel Studio's vision of recreating the marvel universe in the big screen ever gets realized, then i think it would be a bit of a problem. but then that's just me.
and evans did the role justice, if only he had better direction and script to work on.
i enjoyed parts of the cheesiness of the script actually, but then when put in the context of making the film credible enough to open its own franchise and make it part of the prelaunching series for the Avengers film, it just is ridiculously unhelpful. by opting for a script that gratifies guts more than imagination, marvel risks the viewability of its next set of films, even the whole marvel film universe idea itself.
let's just hope that the better half of The First Avenger will redeem itself in the box office in the long run. otherwise, joe johnstone and his team should be banned from marvel forever.