Everybody had a childhood superhero or comic book character that they idolised and wanted to be, either stemming from moguls of the Superhero brand, Marvel or DC. The last few years has seen Marvel releasing films as fast as a production line produces the costumes, in order to build up to the much anticipated The Avengers. I won’t lie I am dying to see it. Captain America is one of the hero’s included in the upcoming film, therefore earning the a movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.
Now never having read Captain America comics I went into the film knowing fairly little about it. The lead, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans ,Fantastic 4, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) appears at first to be a scrawny young lad who has yet to hit puberty unlike his fellow friend and soldier, Bucky. Due to this lack of height or manliness he is rejected as a volunteer by the Army a impressive 5 times . Then Hollywood works it magic and suddenly Steve is presented with a opportunity to become the ‘Ultimate’ war hero. He enters a high tech lab for an experiment and enters a capsule, with bright lights flashing in around 3 minutes the capsule doors open and out steps Steve, with a impressive array of muscles that any body builder would die for. Cue women swooning, including myself.
Captain America it turns out has a sole purpose - to convince people to donate money to the war, he was created purely for propaganda. The hero status dramatically diminishes and herein lies the problem. His not really a super hero, not like Iron Man (who despite being a regular human, becomes special when wearing his suit) or Superman. Captain America as a whole, despite being a “nice guy film” is boring, which makes the it unwatchable. The plot lacked a specialness, it failed to keep me on the edge of my seat in anticipation and at some points seemed disjointed. Chris Evans failed to impress with his unexceptional take on the character, who had no sense of humour and was about as interesting to watch as paint drying. He could have taken it so much further, been a little more risqué and intense.
Action films are meant to make the audience want to be that protagonist, yet I would most definitely take any other hero or superhero if given the chance. Captain America/Steve fumbled around trying to do good, admittedly he achieves this sometimes, but I just simply did not care. Defending America's ideals was the aim,
The only enjoyable scene was seeing Tony Stark’s (Iron Man) father played by Dominic Cooper, and Samual L Jackson make appearances. Again linking the production to Marvel and the highly anticipated The Avengers. I plead with the film god’s and hope that it proves to be the best yet.
Crash and burning like Captain America is not an option.
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