Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Review: While waiting for the film that will finally unite, and under the influence of Nick Fury played by Samuel L. Jackson, the great supergroup of the Marvel galaxy, 'The Avengers', comes a ratio of various adventures of one of its members, Captain America, a contradictory character in the universe of superheroes – created in 1941, he was a super soldier against the Nazi cause in the forties, a scourge of communists in the fifties and a more severe hero after the incorporation of Stan Lee as the scriptwriter of the series in the sixties – and one of the great graphic creations of Jack Kirby.
Captain America Movie Synopsis:
Captain America: The First Avenger takes us back to the early years of the Marvel Universe by bringing the legendary comic to life on the big screen. Steve Rogers (Cris Evans, known for his role as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four film series), weak and shy, wants to be a soldier and fight for his country,
but because of his physical appearance, he is always rejected until he volunteers to participate in an experimental program that will transform him into a super-soldier avenger with enormous physical abilities. From that moment on he will be known by the nickname Captain America and will become a symbol of hope and justice for his nation.
This superhero blockbuster also features actors such as Hugo Weaving (Matrix, The Lord of the Rings), Hayley Atwell (The Pillars of the Earth) and Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) in the cast. Directed by Joe Johnston (The Wolfman, Jumanji).
Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Analysis:
Some of the characteristics of a pamphleteering and patriotic vigilante are preserved in the film made by Joe Johnston, but that is inherent to the origins of the character – the story focuses on his birth as a super soldier and his battles against Red Skull, the Nazi who was fond of occultism and became his nemesis – and the moment when he emerged as a propaganda element against Nazism.
Johnston, in this sense, is a wise choice, since two decades earlier he brought to the screen the adventures of 'Rocketeer', the retro comic by Dave Stevens (Nazi spies, pin-ups, zeppelins, teenage heroes, B-series rockets). In 'Captain America: The First Avenger' he deploys a similar arsenal of analog and pulp aesthetics, all very much in keeping with the origins of the boomerang-shield superhero.
There is also a certain dose of bad temper in the film (the laughable performance of the protagonist before the troops destined for Europe), the expected ratio of action scenes (conclusive, without false paraphernalia) and the confrontation between a transparent, almost naive character, Captain America, and a villain, Red Skull, a perfect expression of the threat of Nazism according to the authors of the comic, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, deprived in the film of part of its original convincing mystery.
Pros: Vintage, pulp conviction without annoying nostalgia
Cons: Captain America is perhaps a bit dated for the theoretical consumer of the genre.