with a new spider man movie due out this may and an upcoming sequel to blade and and x men 2 to start film soon and i think it would be appropriate to review some of the previous attempt that marvel comic have make to get their character onto the big screen . it no question that their film have never be as successful a their arch rival and dc comic and especially in the ninety . while there be a successful tv incredible hulk series in the seventy and a never release and low budget fantastic four flick and and an ahem film version of the punisher that be not even worthy of mention and at the end of the day and the only cinematic interpretation of their hero that be worth comment on at all be blade and x men and and captain america . in an early review and write back in my naive and less educate in cinema day and i state that captain america be the great super hero film ever make . this be not a true statement and and it be one i make have not see the film in a few year and and the flaw be less apparent in my mind . yes and there be many flaw in this film represent some of the dialogue be cheezy and many of the character be underdeveloped and and there be simply not enough time spend with captain america in costume . however and in the heart of this film there be a very sincere and very respectable tribute to the golden age superhero and and i feel that the movie be still very much worthy of praise . without go too much into detail about the nature of the plot and i will say that it successfully sum up sixty year of comic into one movie . both the character of captain america and his facist counterpart and the red skull ( brainchild of hitler in the comic and create by mussolini and sell to the nazi here ) be depict a much more tragic than in the comic . both character be well construct and sincerely act by matt salinger and scott paulin and and the film be basically a tribute to old 1940 serial with two strong character take center stage . when i say a tribute to 1940 serial and this be exactly what i mean . every plot point and every character save cap and the skull and serve nothing more than to move the story along from action scene to action scene . many thing happen that make little sense for example and upon be revive in the ninety after be frozen in ice for fifty year and captain america be find by a conspiracy theorist who have be piece together his story for year . how do the guy find our hero . he just happen to be drive through northern canada and stumble upon him . once the red skull realize that cap be still alive and he determine that the hero must be out to destroy him . now and cap have be out of commission for fifty year and and the red skull be now a mysterious and corleone esque kingpin . in this film and they only encounter briefly in the 1940 before cap be freeze in ice . why on earth would skull jump to the conclusion that hey . cap be thaw out and and his first objective will be to stop the red skull . in another part and realizing that the skull be hide in italy and cap jump on a plane fro the u. s. and fly there . um . how do he get on board of that plane . surely his passport wasn not perserved with him in the ice . but nevermind . these plot hole and and many like them and be irrelavent to what this film be try to do represent put our hero in a series of spectacular action scene and watch how he get out of them . it be not try to tell a serious story and it be simply try to give u some silly and comic book action in a movie serial kind of way and and the movie do just that . our hero be strap to a german rocket head toward the white house and dodge nazi villians in northern canada and be amaze in some cleverly write scenes how many american product be make in former enemy land of japan and germany and fight the red skull henchman in italy and and finally have an explosive showdown with the skull himself in the kingpin castle and where the villian threaten to blow up all of western europse with an atomic bomb which he receive from a piano . all this combine with the fact that the skull be responsible for the death of jfk and rfk and and martin luther king and and now he plan to use a brain transplant to make the new economically aware u. s. president his slave . it be impossible to take this film any more seriously than you would take an old serial or a four part issue of the cap comic book and and this kind of treatment be exactly what a captain america movie need . a a result and the low budget and occasionally hammy acting and and confuse storytelling only add to the film effect and heighten director pyun well choreograph action sequence . there be just something grand and and dog gonnit and patriotic about the president of the united state leap from a tower in order to keep the skull from use him in be experiment and only to be successfully catch and save by captain america and who be crawl up the wall vigorously . in real life and this would have rip both their arm out of their socket and but in this movie and what difference do it make . it such a well shot scene . this say and cap and skull be well develop and and they hold the film together when it threaten to go over the top in it comic book silliness . cap fight the skull and fail to defeat him in the 1940 and only to be freeze in ice and thaw out in the ninety and where he learn that and because he fail to defeat the skull and his arch villian be responsible for the death of many historic figure . feeling he have fail his country and plus realize his old girlfriend be now old with a family of her own and cap be a determined and meloncholy hero with nothing to lose . there be a sincerity to the part that matt salinger brings and and with his niavity and his boyish good look and it look a if cap be truly a hero from the 1940 and who have step out of his time and into ours and be truly amaze at the change that have come ( though attempt to give him line feature old 40 term such a gee wizz and holy mackeral do not come off so well ) . the red skull watch the slaughter of his family a a small boy in the 1930 and and this tramautizing event that lead to his transformation into the monster he now be have bitter him over the century . in a film which emphasize overacting and he probably have the sublest role and yet he still have the film best over the top line ( assassination isn not worth the trouble . it take two year to find sir han . three to find oswald . the king job alone cost u over twenty two million dollar . what do we get for our trouble . saint . martyr to the cause . ) must like michael corleone in the godfather 2 ( though on a much small level ) and in the film final scene and he build himself up a a great and powerful crimelord and but to the viewer and he simply come across a pitiful . in the end and captain america be a fun and low budget and patriotic and feel good action flick which work in a saturday matinee sort of way . while never release to theater here in the u. s. and it make the theater and perhaps ironically and overseas and and a a result and build the bridge for the big budget and more serious marvel superhero movie that come year later and be still to come . certainly worth watch and certainly worth owning and certainly a tribute to sixty year of captain america comic book . out of .