+Making Captain America not feel patriotic and preachy, or at least playing off that expectation.

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2020)

+Hugo Weaving chewing scenery and making building seem interesting.
+Excellent casting of the sweet hearted Chris Evans.
+Tiny Steve Rogers body is head scratchingly good.
+Stanley Tucci, Stanley Tucci's accent.
+Hayley Atwell is feminine and strong.
+Fairly robust and positive and clear themes/messages.
+The grenade scene always moves me.
+Hammy but classic feeling blockbuster script.
+Unpretentious and paced with some breathing room.
+The injokes and comic references are adapted satisfactorily.
+Hugo Weaving as Red Skull is very charismatic and good mixture of performance and effects.
-Some of the comping effects look cheap.
-Sets look a bit generic.
-Some casting looks like the thrifty choice in response to some of the name actors.
-Lame death of Bucky.
-Dominic Cooper.
-Uneven pacing messes up a lot of the movie, even an interesting montage is still a montage.
-All the good scenes are sandwiches between boring ones.
-Action isn't particularly engaging.
Stan Lee cameo review: as Old Army Man that mistakes Captain America "I thought he'd be taller!" 2/5
Post credits sequence review: 3/5: a retread of Iron Mans but it's paced well and feels like part of the main film for better or worse. Brings Cap thrust in to this century. Although why the Shield holding cell is right next to Times Square I have no idea.