Steve Rogers is a young man from Brooklyn who wants nothing more than to serve his country in the armed forces during World War II. There’s only one problem, Steve stands five foot three and weighs less than 100 pounds. Luckily, an ex-Nazi scientist, now working for the US government is conducting a medical experiment to create the perfect soldier. Through this test, Steve is turned into a 6 foot muscle man, and ready to fight. He goes from being a war bonds spokesman, to inadvertent war hero, to captain of an Army Special Ops unit targeting the forces of lead Nazi scientist Johan Schmidt, AKA the Red Skull.
This film shows how far comic book movies have come in the last few years. When seeing a comic book movie for the first time, I find myself waiting for the moment when the character becomes the hero. It does take some time, but the story moves well enough to keep the viewer paying attention to the movie, rather than waiting for Peter Parker to finally become Spiderman, for example. The players all act their parts very well, and this is a beautiful movie to see on the big screen. I watched this in 2D and was amazed.
Interesting note: Even though the movie is subtitled “the First Avenger,” this is the last of the Avenger’s solo movies to be released before they team up for “The Avengers” in 2012.
Spoiler Alert: If you can still the catch this in the theater, stay through the closing credits for a sneak peak of “The Avengers”.
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