Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan and Toby Jones.
SYNOPSIS:
After volunteering for a top secret military research programme, Steve Rogers is turned into the super soldier Captain America.
I’ve never really known much at all about the Captain America character, I've always assumed that he was conceived primarily as a tool for propaganda in the comic medium during World War 2. But in the wake of Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk and Thor and with the forthcoming Avengers film, the pressure of piecing these four seemingly divergent stories together hinges on Capt’s ‘mighty’ shield.
The film is set in a (Marvel tweaked) 1942/3 and Steve Rogers (Chis Evans) is a sickly, small guy that’s been bullied all of his life – which has cultivated an unyielding resolve in him to face his antagonists without ever taking a backward step. During his 5th attempt to get into the army he runs across German scientist, working for the Allies, Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci) who admires his ‘diamond in the rough’ inner value and selects him for their ‘super soldier’ program.
For me there was always going to be a roadblock with Captain America’s values because of the worse modern perceptions of America as gluttonous, greedy, apathetic, and backward. How would the audience be sold on a character build to portray American values? Well the writers and Johnston at the helm use a fantastic interlude where Cap is reduced to an interactive marketing identity for bond sales that mirrors political spin in modern society. Instead of Rogers portraying ideal American values it’s the title that hopes to associate itself with Rogers values
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