Tried to enjoy it, I honestly did

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2011)

It can be hard to write a comic book movie, and so much can go wrong, like in the first hulk film. but so much can go right, like in Iron Man. point being, comic book movies are possible. Which only makes me wonder when i see this, with the writers and director having forgotten the "movie" part of "comic book movie". a PG-13 movie is, by definition, aimed at a teen-aged-to-adult audience. this movie seems to think the audience is all children, thus the character's motivations being "i don't like bullies", and having instances where a soldier runs up to captain America, right up within two feet, to try and shoot him with his submachine gun, just so good old' cap' can whack him with his shield. the borderline Mary Sue hero smashes through everyone. practically no one poses a challenge, and any real Allied soldiers in the fight always seem to get killed, just so the director can say "See! that's how dangerous HYDRA is! that's what Cap has to face! Drama! Tension! DRAAAAMMMA!!!!!!'" it's as if the movie is trying to say "you know those British, American, and french solders that had to fight and die for their country? they were idiots. they weren't heroes. they weren't Captain America." i would mention Russian soldiers too, but the movie doesn't insult them directly. it does it indirectly by omitting them. yes, the country that held off most of the Nazi army and ended up taking Berlin in the end is not given a single mention in the film.