Movie Review: Captain America

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Movie Review: Captain America The First Avenger (2011)
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci
Plot: Steve Rogers (Evans) wants to become the best solider possible. There’s just one problem: he’s a 90 pound kid with too many medical conditions to be accepted. However, when Dr. Abraham Erskine (Tucci) sees that he has the drive to be not only a good soldier, but a good man, he puts him into a secret Super Soldier program to create the ultimate soldier. And it works. However, the facility is attacked by the forces of Hydra, lead by a German who is obsessed with all things occult. Turns out this German also went through an earlier (less profected) version of the Super Soldier program and became the Red Skull (Weaving).

Can Steve Rogers defeat the Red Skull and save the world from total destruction?

In a word, this movie is awesome. It’s great to see Johnston behind the camera again, and he brings the fun and adventure of WWII that he brought to the screen with the Rocketeer, and translates a pulp adventure into a cinematic masterpiece. This flick is fun, action packed, and has some great performances. Another testament to the level of quality and entertainment that Marvel Studios are bringing to the cinematic counter-parts of their intellectual properties.

Evans does a great job as Steve Rogers, who as a wholesome character could be very easy to dislike or not identify with. However, Evans performance makes the character both likeable and relateable to the movie-going audience. Weaving does a good job playing a villain, and he does a great job of commanding the makeup once the Red Skull face is revealed. Tommy Lee Jones also steals every scene he’s in, and Hayley Atwell does such a great job of filling the role of the competent career woman and heartthrob.

As with the other Marvel flicks, there’s more of a lead in for the Avengers movie that comes out next year. Unfortunately it makes the ending of this movie more of a transition than an ending. But if you stay after the credits, there’s a teaser trailer for the Avengers flick that’s totally bad ass. But then again, that movie is going to be totally bad ass.

If you want a fun summer adventure flick, you need to go see this movie. Twice.

If you don’t have any desire to see this movie, then you’re a communist spy. Who steals candy from babies. And hates good movies.

Basically, go see this movie.

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