Captain America: The Winter Soldier make it so profitable, is its emotional bandwidth—all the vivid, nuanced life lived by its characters in between their frenzied escapades," and felt it fixed all the shortcomings of "The First Avenger" "and then some". Conversely, Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" said, "["Captain America: The Winter Soldier"] is everything a big budget superhero film should be – except inspired." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" said, "Like many others of its type, ["Captain America: The Winter Soldier"] gets off to a kinetic start only to lose steam before blowing everything up." Robbie Collin of "The Daily Telegraph"
Captain America in other media serial "Captain America" has the main character District Attorney Grant Gardner, who is loosely based on the Marvel character Captain America. His nemesis is the Scarab and his love interest and sidekick is Gail Richards. The first feature-length depiction of Captain America was the 1990 film "Captain America". Development began when the film rights were purchased by The Cannon Group founders Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus in 1984, with "Death Wish" helmer Michael Winner to direct. Scripts written by James Silke ("Revenge of the Ninja", "Sahara"), Stan Hey ("Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"), Stan Lee and Lawrence Block ("The Funhouse") were rejected