Captain America = shit

So what's wrong with another comic book hero hitting the big screen?  Everything if it's as bad as this particular piece of hollywood trash.

After the joys of The Punisher, DareDevil and Electra to name a few, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that comic book characters can be become awful movies.

At some stage in a either a high school drama or english class, I learned that the success of fiction is based on 'the willing suspension of disbelief' on the part of the audience.  It is the job of the writer/director/actors to keep the audience in this state of mind.  I lost it about five minutes after yet another american hero took drugs to improve his performance.  It wasn't when he was chasing - and catching - cars.  It was when the guy he was chasing got into the nazi bat-sub in Queens, New York.

The suspension of disbelief came back for a little while after that as the captain sold bonds and did USO shows.  But and I should have known there would always be a but, almost everything about Hydra was in no way believable in the context set up in the first 30mins of the movie.  If you set up a movie in the context of World War 2, then you can only extend reality so far before it becomes ridiculous.  So Hydra has super weapons - fine.  That the US captures them and then doesn't use them is not!  Hydra turns on the Nazis and there are no reprisals?  Ernst Rohm's ghost will tell you that doesn't happen.  And so it continued.

Personally, I have severe struggles with movies set in the past that have technology we don't yet have today.  I hated League of distinguished Gentlemen for this reason.  Captain America suffers many of the same problems. 

Add to the plethora of implausibles a by-the-numbers script.  If you ever watch this movie, at the start of each scene guess the outcome - 99% of the time you'll be right if you've seen a few action movies before.  The love interest getting used as a hostage is probably the only part of a stock standard action flick missing.

On a happier note, the two veterans in the cast - Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving - were both pretty good in their roles.  Chris Evans and his CGI buddies did ok too.