Captain America: The First Avenger
The fifth and final entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe; that started with Iron-Man in 2008; that leads up to the blockbuster event: The Avengers Movie.
Following surprisingly close to the comic book for the first 30 minutes of the movie the story is well written, and the dialog is actually well conceived and well delivered. They are lighthearted when they need to be, and they are serious and just dramatic enough when the plot calls for it.
The movie does have its goofy movies, most notably the war propaganda where the Captain dances around with chorus line girls and punches a pastiche of Adolf in different american cities.
The Special effects are excellent specially the thin, sickly, frail Chris Evans at the beginning of the movie. They add depth and realism to the movie without getting in the way of the actual story telling.
However story telling and characterization is where it all goes a bit down hill. While they did a great job of fleshing out Steve Rogers' drive and reasons for doing what he does, they sadly forgot about Red Skull. In what can only be described as an extended cameo, Red Skull only gets as far as showing us he is very very evil. At first following Hitler's instructions, but very quickly branching out on his own as the head of the evil "Nazi" scientific branch: Hydra and bent on world conquest. Why he wants to conquer the world, his motivations or any other bit of exposition that would make his wishes plausible are left to the audience's imagination.
While Red Skull's makeup is pretty good, Hugo Weaving's German accent is painful to listen to as it comes and goes in different strengths throughout the film. You can barely call it an accent some times.
On the other hand Chris Evan's buff body works perfectly to fill in Captain America's costume. I could hear the women in my theater sigh when he steps out of the Super Soldier machine shirtless showing off his perfectly chiseled physique. His depiction is so good that you forget that he was the silly, wisecracking Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies.
The movie flows very well and editing is done quite nicely; maintaining a cohesive feel, and helping the audience understand what is going on when the actions scenes become quite intense.
The Technology is of course very much comic book style as you have security cameras, and advanced looking computers in 1942! however the general 1940's atmosphere is done fairly nicely. with good costumes, and great looking era specific cars.
All in all it is a fun movie, nowhere near as excellent as Iron-Man was, but still a good movie to watch and a worthy entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Definitely recommended.
As with all Marvel movies stay till the end of the credits to get a sneak peak at the Avengers Movie.
4 out 5 reels.
Following surprisingly close to the comic book for the first 30 minutes of the movie the story is well written, and the dialog is actually well conceived and well delivered. They are lighthearted when they need to be, and they are serious and just dramatic enough when the plot calls for it.
The movie does have its goofy movies, most notably the war propaganda where the Captain dances around with chorus line girls and punches a pastiche of Adolf in different american cities.
The Special effects are excellent specially the thin, sickly, frail Chris Evans at the beginning of the movie. They add depth and realism to the movie without getting in the way of the actual story telling.
However story telling and characterization is where it all goes a bit down hill. While they did a great job of fleshing out Steve Rogers' drive and reasons for doing what he does, they sadly forgot about Red Skull. In what can only be described as an extended cameo, Red Skull only gets as far as showing us he is very very evil. At first following Hitler's instructions, but very quickly branching out on his own as the head of the evil "Nazi" scientific branch: Hydra and bent on world conquest. Why he wants to conquer the world, his motivations or any other bit of exposition that would make his wishes plausible are left to the audience's imagination.
While Red Skull's makeup is pretty good, Hugo Weaving's German accent is painful to listen to as it comes and goes in different strengths throughout the film. You can barely call it an accent some times.
On the other hand Chris Evan's buff body works perfectly to fill in Captain America's costume. I could hear the women in my theater sigh when he steps out of the Super Soldier machine shirtless showing off his perfectly chiseled physique. His depiction is so good that you forget that he was the silly, wisecracking Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies.
The movie flows very well and editing is done quite nicely; maintaining a cohesive feel, and helping the audience understand what is going on when the actions scenes become quite intense.
The Technology is of course very much comic book style as you have security cameras, and advanced looking computers in 1942! however the general 1940's atmosphere is done fairly nicely. with good costumes, and great looking era specific cars.
All in all it is a fun movie, nowhere near as excellent as Iron-Man was, but still a good movie to watch and a worthy entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Definitely recommended.
As with all Marvel movies stay till the end of the credits to get a sneak peak at the Avengers Movie.
4 out 5 reels.
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