Even more disappointing is Chris Evans' Captain A when he gets put into his own muscular body. He's played to icy perfection by Hugo Weaving, but the dialogue is generic megalomaniac stuff. Erskine's serum - which has, with the help of a supernatural glowy thing, transformed his head into a red skull. The super-villain in this case isn't Hitler but a breakaway Nazi named Schmidt who was the first recipient of an early version of Dr.
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I caught a faint whiff of one of my favorite films, Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, also about a weakling who dreams of fighting in the war - but who doesn't have a German scientist to pump him full of super-sizing chemicals. The early section is the best part of Captain America: You watch Jones with his acid deadpan bicker with a shining-eyed, lovable Tucci while anticipating little Steve Rogers' transformation into a superhero. soldier - which puts Erskine at odds with Tommy Lee Jones as a brusque colonel, whose choice is a more obvious candidate, a soldier named Hodge. Erskine thinks Steve, despite his asthma and poor muscle tone, has the strength of heart to become the first biochemically enhanced U.S. Erskine, a German scientist who defected to the Allies. Rogers is classified 4F until he is overheard vowing to keep applying by Stanley Tucci as Dr. Rogers began his life not as a jock but as a 98-pound weakling who couldn't get into the Army. The musclebound jock Captain America with his mighty shield, born Steve Rogers, actually was the first Marvel avenger, conceived in 1940 to do battle with Hitler. But the movie has an easy, classical pace and a lot of good, old-fashioned craftsmanship. No, it's not destined to be a classic: Material so pulpy just isn't worth doing at these prices. And they seem bogged down instead of liberated by their expensive computer-generated effects.īut I like the new Captain America, or, as it's officially titled, Captain America: The First Avenger, which is meant to remind us that the Captain will be an ally of Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor in the upcoming Marvel Comics epic The Avengers. The problem is that modern superhero movies cost $100-plus million and use up studio resources that could be better used for. Here's a lookback on the ending of Captain America: The First Avenger.Unlike many other middle-aged moviegoers, I don't groan at the prospect of every new comic-book-based movie. To ensure those lives were saved, he was willing to do whatever it takes. The potential cost of doing good has never phased him.
At the core of Cap's character is the sacrifices he's willing to make. This is the Steve Rogers who got selected to be the Super-Soldier in the first place, who doesn't hesitate to jump on a grenade in training while everyone else runs for cover. Becoming Captain America didn't change that part of him. The scene cuts off before Rogers gives an answer, but the implication is clear: true believer, you're not the only one wondering whether this captain had to go down with his ship.īut of course he did. Instead, the moment comes during a deleted scene from Avengers: Endgame, when Colonel James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) finds himself one-on-one with Captain Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and uses the opportunity to question Captain America about the crash that trapped him in suspended animation in the Arctic ice for decades. Seventeen movies after Captain America: The First Avenger, audiences finally (almost) got to hear someone ask. "And you couldn't have jumped out of the plane before you crashed it?"