Captain America the First Avenger Jenna Coleman

It is 1941 and the world is in the throes of war. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wants to practise his function and join America'south armed services, but the armed services rejects him because of his small-scale stature. Finally, Steve gets his gamble when he is accepted into an experimental plan that turns him into a supersoldier called Captain America. Joining forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), Captain America leads the fight confronting the Nazi-backed HYDRA organization.

With each review in my Curiosity Cinematic Universe (MCU) marathon thus far, I take provided a brief clarification of how I kickoff watched the film in question and my initial thoughts on it when it was first released.

When Iron Man 1 and 2, Incredible Hulk , and Thor were released, I fell in honey with them and I legitimately could non stop thinking well-nigh them no matter what. My favorite phase in the MCU is without a doubt Phase 3 – it tied upwardly all the loose ends and storylines that the films spent years leading up to – but Stage I is easily the one that brings me the most nostalgia because information technology's the Phase that I grew up watching.

But interestingly plenty, eleven-year-old me didn't really relish Joe Johnston'due south Captain America: The Get-go Avenger when I initially watched information technology. To this twenty-four hour period I have no thought why – the film has plenty of action, first-class characters, and a huge heart at its cadre. Because of my by history with this movie, The First Avenger was i of the movies I was nigh curious to revisit for my MCU marathon. Watching it again all these years afterwards, I tin can wholeheartedly say that this is an astonishing moving-picture show and 11-twelvemonth-old me had no idea what he was talking about.

Information technology'south intriguing to think about how, in the nowadays-day MCU, we have so many films and shows centered effectually characters that some would consider odd-balls or characters who otherwise just don't get a lot of screentime in the films. For example, who would have always thought that an Emmet-Man film would ever become made? I certainly didn't and that belief is widely echoed.

As strange and every bit unique as films similar that are, The First Avenger feels like ane of the most singled-out and assuming MCU films ever released. This was the last movie in the franchise to be distributed past Paramount Pictures, every bit The Avengers served as the starting point for the Disney-era of the MCU. Some don't similar the Disney era and others love it (myself included). But I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the days when Marvel movies were not afraid to get dark every bit evidenced in this film.

Everybody knows that Earth War Two was one of the darkest times in history, and it would've been god-awful if Curiosity had fabricated a squeaky clean motion-picture show taking place during that time, simply thankfully, they didn't. Don't get me wrong, this movie is nowhere near equally brutal and realistic a war film every bit Saving Private Ryan or Hacksaw Ridge, just for a superhero movie, they did a superb task at depicting this time in history. Virtually Marvel flicks don't even dare to go near the topic of the Globe Wars, merely The First Avenger did, and information technology mostly succeeded in its efforts.

Fifty-fifty the films that preceded this one didn't become as dark and equally gritty as this film gets and I appreciate the screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely as well as managing director Joe Johnston for daring to effort something dissimilar in the Curiosity world.

Speaking of Joe Johnston, his direction here is admittedly impeccable. He has directed quite a few films in the past including Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, and Jurassic Park III, and even worked on the entire original trilogy of Star Wars. In brusque, he has been credited to a lot of big, blockbuster movies and his vision for Captain America's origin story is naught short of marvelous.

Captain America is without a dubiety ane of my favorite superheroes ever and it'southward not because of his powers – he doesn't have any. But what makes him and then memorable and inspiring to me so many other people is that he's but one man who believes he tin can bring some skilful to the world. Certain, he has a vibranium shield that's virtually indestructible and is extremely strong, but at the end of the twenty-four hour period, he is merely a skillful human being with a good heart, trying to do the right thing.

Thankfully, this movie does a wonderful job at depicting Steve Rogers / Captain America in that light. The moment this flick ended, I wanted to scout the other Captain America movies considering I was reminded of merely how strong his character arc is in the MCU. At the time of this moving picture's release, nobody was sure where his grapheme would go down the road only now that we see the big pic, information technology'due south easier to capeesh this motion-picture show even more.

All of the visuals, camerawork, music, and editing are all top tier and add up to create a magnificent superhero blockbuster. The Marvel Cinematic Universe rarely has a misstep. When I was younger, I idea this picture show was, but now that I am older, I can wholeheartedly say that this picture is astonishing.