Captain America: The First Avenger Reviews
The Ooh Tray
Where are the iconic moments in these movies; the classic lines, the signature set pieces, the golden cues? Brand awareness is high but surely that wasn't the limit of the new studio's ambition?
Daily Film Fix
While not a terrible film, Captain America lacks edge necessary to excite viewers.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Top CriticThe details in Captain America deliver, but the big moments fall flat - you can tell that we're intended to cheer here, to weep there, but the scenes that try hardest to elicit emotions just feel deflated.
Captain America's metabolism, Peggy tells him, burns energy four times faster than the average person's. The movie's metabolism burns out.
In terms of even recent films, Captain America lacks the deft touch, appealing character interaction and sophisticated storytelling skills of Marvel Comics' X-Men: First Class.
Screen International
Captain America has a decent amount of heart and retro appeal, although neither can compensate for what is otherwise a rather ordinary comic book film.
Director Joe Johnston has fun with the myth of Captain America.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Saddled with a boring present-day prologue and an anti-climactic present-day epilogue that leaves the movie without an ending.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
[A] hokey, hacky, two-hour-plus exercise in franchise transition/price gouging, complete with utterly unnecessary post-converted 3-D.
Filmcritic.com
As muscular, stiff, shiny, and dull as its star
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
A forced love angle and vapid dialogue dooms Captain America.
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| Original Score: C-
Slant Magazine
A capable, if somewhat unremarkable, affair, beset by the same origin-story shortcomings that plagued another U.S.-virtue-via-army-weaponry fable, Iron Man.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Knight at the Movies
"Looks great and hits all the right notes but never truly puts the pedal to the metal."
Playback:stl
If you get bored during this film (I certainly did, despite all the eye candy on screen) you can amuse yourself by deciding which of the characters has the worst German accent.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Patch
A few flashes of greatness appearing throughout, all but ruined by one of the worst 3D transfers of the year
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| Original Score: 2/5
BrianOrndorf.com
Downside is the influence of modern technology, shining up a 1940's hero with glossy 2011 filmmaking tools, making the picture resemble more of a video game than an epic realization of jumbo comic book details.
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| Original Score: C+
Metromix.com
The least inspired and engaging entry in the summer's superhero onslaught.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Combustible Celluloid
[A] so-so experience.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
E! Online
One of the biggest issues is that Captain America isn't all that super.
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| Original Score: C-
eFilmCritic.com
While it never hits the craptastic depths of something like "Green Lantern," most people are likely to come away from it thinking that it could have and should have been a lot better than it is.
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| Original Score: 3/5
