Trying to get into Marvel... Not a great start

Rating: 5/10 (27 November 2019)

Lately I've been wanting to get into Marvel to see what the fuss is about. Wanting to watch them chronologically, I watched this movie.
I didn't like it. The story is boring amd the characters are lame and predictable. Skinny guy turns into tough guy without having to go through any training and is now a hero. His adversary is the leader of Hydra, a crazed, red... Man, called the Red Skull. We don't get any info as to why he is red, where he comes from. He uses power from a cube that not only contains energy, it also enables him to manufacture very advanced ray gun weapons that vaporize people. In the 40's. Unfortunately these weapons are never more effective than any other military gun, maybe even less, because they aren't capable of rapid fire.
How did they manage to make Cap look so lame? His suit is ugly. His personality is that he is a "good man" that wants to go to war because he does not like "bullies". At first he weighed 90 pounds, then after a transformation he's now a giant, probably weighing around 190 pounds. Never I feel like he deserved that treatment, because everything else he does in the movie is anything special, anything a "good man" would do. Any soldier would be able to replace him.
Overall I couldn't get into it and the movie became a two-hour long snorefest. The action wasn't anything particular to me, either. I know, this is a 2011 movie, but I've seen better action movies from before. The acting was about average. I didn't think the movie looked interesting either, it does not utilise cinematography to it's fullest.
I'll still be watching more Marvel movies, but I was really disappointed by this one.