If you saw a film of Marvel Entertainment, survived the standard appearances by Stan Lee and appearances by Samuel L. compulsory Jackson as Nick Fury, you would be forgiven a feeling that you've seen enough. "Captain America: The First Avenger" is not the movie to change your mind, but he has something that others do not: Chris Evans in the title role.
Evans made the way before Marvel, the game of Johnny Storm / Human Torch in a couple of "Fantastic Four" movies. But as Steve Rogers, a weak man who became a husky young Captain America with a dose of super-soldier serum, this section highlights a serious call and humility of the actor's certainly not as gender- the superhero cartoon ever.
"Captain America" is not only set during the Second World War. While the first comic, what would become the Marvel Universe, goes back in March 1941, months before the American entry into the conflict, and his captain on the cover of a cold tuner of Adolf Hitler, apparently turned to look Back in the day.
Even if it starts and ends with a scene or two here, directed by Joe Johnston, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, "Captain America" is first and foremost the story of its origins. Almost half of the films running time will elapse before Rogers receives no power, and even if its elements are awfully familiar, is the majority of the film, because it uses the performance of Evans'.
We are just starting in some parts of the old style so that if you take away with plenty of special effects, watching "Captain America" feels like watching the venerable 1950 television version of "Superman" starring George Reeves. Buttons pushed for a ride, secret passwords are pronounced, and the lights are flashing, just like they did back when.
First, to meet with Steve Rogers as the classic 98 pound weak, a young man so determined to join the army as the best friend, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who continues to try to woo even the armed forces will continue to turn down .
Impressed by his good sense, if not the physical scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine emigrated (Stanley Tucci with an accent, and Albert Einstein hair) of the super-secret government scientific strategic reserve.
Erskine has developed the Super Soldier Serum, but fled his homeland because the Nazis wanted to get their hands on it. The good doctor knows that because the drug amplifies "all that is in you," potential super soldiers must be pure of heart. What is Steve Rogers.
The Americans would not you know, it is not the only people with super-soldiers in their minds. The Third Reich, led by a renegade officer named Johann Schmidt (an expert Hugo Weaving) is also on the market, but it takes a somewhat different way.
Schmidt is the man at the top Hydra, the Nazis' occult research arm, and the beginning of the film we see, somewhere in Norway to do with a mysterious object green, "the jewel in the treasure room of Odin" . It turns out to be a source of energy, if he could spray the phenomenal world.
No one says exactly what this cube is (it's a cartoon, after all, and you're supposed to know), but its power to convince Schmidt of the shadow of Hitler and the world on his own government. Very soon we are treated to the spectacle of uniformed thugs shouting "Heil HYDRA" as they raise their hands in a greeting rather ridiculous.
Weaving is one of the strong supporting cast this film has attracted. Toby Jones (Truman Capote in "Infamous") plays cleverly HYDRA is No. 2, Dr. Arnim Zola, British actress Hayley Atwell is both starch and sensual as possible love interest Peggy Carter, and Tommy Lee Jones has a little fun with Colonel Chester Phillips, a role he could probably play in his sleep.
Johnston, who is sweet and charming "Sky in October", about his new film is at home in softer moments, such as the difficulty of Captain America is becoming a serious military even after his transformation.
Heavy-action film in the second half, even with the addition of 3-D can not help but feel a pro-forma. Although the captain is not technically invulnerable, is it not in the cards at all to get to him it's hard to stay involved.
In fact, the pro forma nature of this project, which exists not only for fun, but also to prepare the world for moviegoers next year, "Avengers" movie, which will join the captain with Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and an assortment of cartoons of others for the greater glory tax Marvel juggernaut. This is understandable from a business perspective, but the captain is a reluctant hero humble, it is hard not to expect it will get more screen time to his.