Captain
America – the First Avenger 2011
- Director: Joe Johnston
- Seen by this director: Hidalgo, Wolfman
- Based on book: no
- Cast: Chris Evans and a lot of others, sorry, can’t be bothered, the film isn’t worth it
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Several of them but not Chris Evans – Many
- Why? The first
- Seen: 19 January 2025
For some
obscure reason, I’ve decided to watch the Marvel films in chronological (not
release) order because there are time gaps in what I’ve seen.
Frankly,
I’m not keen on Captain America since America has a nasty connotation since
Trump came on the scene but I’ll try to suppress my distaste for the sake of
the cause.
Our hero
Steve Rogers (Evans) starts out as a scrawny 4F army reject in 1942. A
mysterious serum…oh never mind. He becomes a super-hero hunk in a silly
costume, but is he a worthy super-hero or just another American macho
propaganda machine?
Well,
there is a lot of stars and stripes gung-ho stuff and soldiery army stuff.
Assuredly the Nazis and uber-Nazis are worthy villains but…
It’s my least favourite of the Marvel masterpieces and Evans has about as much charisma as Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man (= 0) but the ending is promising (don’t miss the bit after the credits). Yay, Samuel L Jackson.
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