Starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones, and Toby Young. Directed by Joe Johnson.
I've not seen this film in ages, maybe not since it first came out on Blu-ray. It recently survived a film cull when I got rid of a whole load of films I just couldn't be arsed to try and sit through again and films I found myself fast forwarding through thru sheer boredom. I remembered having a soft spot for this one and I'm glad I saved it.
What a refreshingly brisk and enthusiastic little flick, by Marvel movie standards, this was. Chris Evans is yet another staggering charismatic actor, who it seems was born to play Captain America. And it wasn't even his first comic character role, nor even his second!
The plot sees puny human, Steve Rogers selected to become the first recipient of Doctor Erskine's Super Solider Serum thus becoming Captain America. Created by the good doctor in an attempt to thwart the nefarious activities of Hugo Weaving's the Red Skull, the leader and creator of the Hydra, the super secret, super-advanced scientific arm of the Nazis. He's only gone and got his hands on the Tesseract, a object of near limitless power, blimey! it's a good job Captain America is on the case, that is once he's finished making movies of course.
This is a rip-roaring and rollicking adventure that has real heart and soul. By focusing on the puny Steve Rogers prior to his transformation and giving us time to, not only, like the puny kid with a big heart but come to really root for him really makes this film work. He's so utterly plucky, and his never-give-up defiance in the face of big bullies everywhere easily wins you over. Sure he's a Dudley Do Right, but he's so damn good looking one and does it all with such guileless heroism that he can't help but make Captain America so gosh-darn likeable!
This is action packed and effects driven but the effects, even nearly 10 years later are surprisingly good, particularly the way they melded Chris Evan's head to the body of a puny body double.
(Nearly) everyone raves about the likes of the last two Avenger movies or Black Panther but for me, this one, and the first Iron Man and to a lesser extent the first Thor movie are the true heart and soul of the entire Marvel Movie Universe franchise, if these had failed to work we perhaps wouldn't have had the likes of Batman vs. Superman, Justice League, Suicide Squad and The Biddies of Prey: The Farcical Constipation of Harley Quinn. So, naturally this film has a lot to be sorry for.
8/10
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