Captain America is the story of Steve Rogers, played by Chris Evans, who's a skinny white guy in the 1940's that want's to join the army but can't because he's shrimpy. Luckily he meets Stanley Tucci who's a scientist that is working on a serum for the super-soldier program and chooses Steve as his guinea pig. The serum works and transforms him from an awkward, skinny white kid, (like me), to one ripped dude. Now that's only one side of the coin. I didn't even get to talk about Red Skull, Hydra or the Tesseract. So in one sentence, the Red Skull is a Hydra leader who has a weapon called the Tesseract, which is a cube of unlimited energy that he tries to use to win WWII and conquer the world. There, that was easy!
This movie is highly entertaining. Not in the bad sense like Batman and Robin entertaining, but truly enjoyable. The film is well done in almost every category. The entire cast delivered strong performances, but the best was Hugo Weaving as Red Skull. Weaving is a phenomenal actor to start with, but he was perfect as Red Skull. The script is well written. I enjoyed how it focused on the propaganda of WWII. The only gripe I have about the film is that it ended on a low note. Yet again, so did Empire Strikes back and that's one of the best movies ever made!
Final Report: Captain America has a little something for everybody:
- There's a superhero aspect
- a history lesson
- a love story
- flashy visuals and riveting action
- true American patriotism
- and an underdog story if there ever was one!
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