jmebaby25
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Awful, awful film.
I didn't go in with high expectations (to be honest, I rate Chris Evans and wanted to be up to date for the Avengers), but I was still disappointed.
The film was perfectly fine until he became Captain America. I felt the way they'd made Evans look short and scrawny was very impressive (although his head was a little too large) and there were a few nice, if not clichéd, exchanges with Tommy Lee Jones and Tucci.
However, as soon as the transformation occurred, the movie descended into farce. I couldn't believe what was unfolding before my eyes. I'm not particularly familiar with the comics, so may Johnson was simply being faithful to the source material, but if so, it was a mistake. Nolan has the right approach, where possible ground it in reality and remove the ridiculous and outright silly aspects which may work in a children's comic book, but not on the big screen.
We'll ignore the fairly average screenplay and muddled story - it was poor. Enough said.
The Red Skull looked pathetic for two reasons - firstly the make up was poorly done, secondly, Weaving is walking around like an irate Skeletor for goodness sakes. Maybe it's how he looks in the comic book, but he just looked stupid. They should have simply made him horribly disfigured from the super soldier serum.
Then you have his henchmen dressed up like gimps at an S&M party. And what was with the ridiculous two armed salute? Then there's the array of hilariously cheap looking sets and vehicles. The whole thing after the transformation was simply awful. And then they had large glow in the dark ray guns! Ray guns! In the 2nd World War.... ray guns! This is before Tony Stark has been born, in that same universe where he was captured in Afghanistan. Favreau went to such lengths to begin Iron Man with a gritty war-torn Afghan setting, and Johnson has introduced glow-in-the-dark rays-guns into the same universe.
I can only suspend disbelief to a certain extent. Super Soldier Serum, fine... I'll buy into that, because that's the high-concept, but they should have played everything else straight and historically detailed. Cap vrs the Red Skull and a bunch of nazis rather than flamethrowing, ray-gun-firing gimps. He's not really going to be a fish out of water in The Avengers, because if anything, the time he was from is more advanced than ours based on this film.
As an aside... I didn't get chance to see Thor, did the cube that the Red Skull possessed have anything to do with it? Odin's treasure was mentioned and ***SPOILER*** there was no explanation for how the Red Skull died or what happened to him... but I got the impression it was again related to Thor, or Asgard. If so, I'm a little miffed that Captain America doesn't make sense if you haven't see Thor (or maybe it just didn't make sense period).
The film gets 2 stars simply because before the transformation, I thought it was pretty good. Tommy Lee Jones did his usual thing to good effect. The love interest was dull. As was Cap's relationship with anyone post Tucci. When (****SPOILER****) Bucky died, I didn't care less, sure Cap looked upset, but nothing presented on screen told us why.
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