Synopsis:
In 1942 Steve Rogers has been declared unfit for military service despite constantly applying under a number of aliases. Just when he thinks all hope is lost he is selected for the Rebirth project after proving his extraordinary courage and is turned into Captain America, a superhero who defends America’s ideals.
If Captain America had been released in the 1940’s I’m sure it would have been a huge hit. But in the 70 years since there have been countless superhero / comic book movies and the vast majority of them are more entertaining than Captain America. There’s really no excuse for making such a boring movie when all the ingredients are there to make something good. Audiences have been so inundated with superhero / comic book movies over the last few years that the next one really has to raise the bar or do something different instead of just jumping on a bandwagon in order to make some money for the studio. The problem with such over saturation is apathy. The decline in quality of comic book adaptations is tangible, and comparable to the decline in 3D popularity. Predictably the 3D quality in Captain America is on a par with the rest of the film and unsurprisingly the post-production conversion adds no value at all except adding a plethora of extras to the credits that you have to sit through to get to the Avengers teaser. So much of the film is ridiculous: Hugo Weaving’s Red Skull is apparently too evil for Hitler and looks like Kevin Bacon playing Warren, the flayed Buffy character; Patriotism apparently makes Chris Evans invincible; Despite having advanced technology, the faceless goons that follow Red Skull are apparently brainless, aimless zombies. Captain America is clichéd and generic, a super-hero-film-by-numbers who’s main accomplishment is to lower the expectations for The Avengers, though some of us have faith in Joss Whedon.
About as good as Wolfman.
