Captain America (1990)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie begins in Italy just prior to World War 2 with government soldiers breaking into a house to kidnap a young boy and then murdering his family in the process. The reason for the kidnapping is that they need a test subject for an experiment which might allow them to create super-soldiers for their army and dreams of conquest. Yet, even though the experiment is a complete success, the doctor involved in it becomes horrified by the ruthlessness of those she works with and manages to escape to the United States with all of the secrets required to continue her work in her head. She then continues her research in the United States which eventually concludes with the making of a super-hero named "Captain America" (Matt Salinger) to counter the super-villain created in Italy who goes by the name of the "Red Skull" (Scott Paulin). Unfortunately, her success is short-lived as she is assassinated by Nazi agents and the secrets she had dies with her shortly afterward. But with war breaking out both Captain America and the Red Skull soon clash with each other and the story becomes even more pronounced after that. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say this the particular movie lacked the special effects of the more modern Captain America films which clearly resulted in an inferior picture by comparison. Even so, I didn't think the movie was necessarily bad as it still managed to entertain to a certain degree. That being said, I have rated this movie as about average and recommend it to those who enjoy films of this type.

I'm confirming it is lame. It suffers from the same issues as the 1994 Fantastic Four, but unlike FF I can give it a, it's so bad it's good stamp (And I'm very happy about that).Captain America is a pretty easy comic to adapt to the big screen, it's just an action adventure war movie about a guy who sometimes wears a mask. They did take some liberties with the character that make my Fanboy radar point up, but it's superficial.Steve Rodgers is now a boy from Southern California who has polio and offered himself up to the super soldier experiment headed up by a woman who escaped from the Nazis (The idea of a woman creating the star spangled avenger was cool, not enough female brainiacs in the comic book industry ).Shortly after Steve Rodgers becomes Captain America the doctor is killed making Steve and The Red Skull the only one's like them. After stopping the Red Skull from destroying the White House he is trapped in Ice for 60 years and wakes up having to stop the Red Skull, who has formed an underground crime unit that basically is Hydra without saying it,again. Proving how well Cap works as an action movie, Matt Salinger who plays Steve Rogers, wearing some sort of padding to make it look like he's got more than he does, barely wears the cartoonish suit they made for him (of course wearing the uniform makes him Captain America, duh)It's got that 80s swagger to it. The Red Skull has his daughter do all the heavy lifting for most of the movie with her small army of rich Nazi brats who drive the fastest cars and wear the hottest fashions but more than capable with the guns.They took some liberties with The Red Skull's origin too, I think this was to save money and film the entire movie in Italy (I'm also guessing that certain places in Italy look more like Southern California than New York City)I am being harsh on the movie because I've grown to like the character more now than I ever did when I was a kid and saw this, but like I expressed before, the movie does have a so bad it's food quality that makes it real enjoyable. http://cinemagardens.com

I.....I.....what the hell have I watched? I don't know what to say. It's astonishing given Marvel's current booming success with the MCU that back in the 80's and 90's all they managed to toss out was dross like Howard The Duck and......this thing.For a start, Captain America's origin story is made significantly less interesting and more generic, and what we get is a boring character with no development or personality. It's basically Loki's impersonation of him in Thor: The Dark World, but put on the big screen for nearly two hours.And the movie as a whole is corny, boring and just dodgily written, with the WWII setting being rushed and replaced with the present day very quickly in. And not to mention that they give Cap the characteristic of.....stealing cars.One thing I do appreciate is that they do try to make Red Skull a more interesting character, but ultimately that's wasted as we don't get any mention of his backstory until the very end, when Cap uses it to distract him before LITERALLY MURDERING HIM, and he's only the freaking Red Skull for about 5 fricking minutes! Seriously.So, all in all, trash. And coming out a year after Tim Burton's Batman, it seems all the more insulting.

The 1990 Euro-American Captain America really gets a lot of bad press that it doesn't deserve. While it definitely has some flaws, playing fast and loose with some plot points (honestly no more so than the modern Marvel Cinematic Universe), it does stay true to the spirits of its main characters, and includes the same sorts of sly call-backs that those of us raised with RDJ's Ironman and the more modern Cap have since come to expect.Where the movie really struggles in its budgeting choices, lavish location shots and action sequences definitely thrill the eyes, but the money probably would have been better spent on costumes and lighting/camera quality, where interior shots often come off dark and grainy. (you'll see many reviewers complain about cap's spandex, which compares poorly to Keaton's 1989 Batman, and even Christopher Reeve's final turn as Superman) Another point where the movie probably failed to compete is in tone... it's not quite as dark or as cartoonish as the contemporary 1989 batman, but likewise it's not as comedic or uplifting as the 80's superman movies, making it an awkward fit for audiences of the day expecting one or the other. And its largely European villains and themes would have probably have failed with an American audience had it gotten a US theater release.But make no mistake, the movie is chock full of good points. By the standards of a 1990 movie, the physical stunts are impressive, relying more on physical talent than on wire-work or camera tricks; and the exotic localities serve to impress the spy-thriller tone of the story very well, giving feel of the dying days of the cold war and European espionage. The cast fit their rolls very well, even when those roles seem a bit ill defined by a script that cuts to different settings quickly with a spy-novel's sensibilities. It has all the flair and bombast you'd expect of a movie written in the late 80s/early 90s action piece with a slight kung-fu twist.While this flick certainly shows some of its age and budgetary constraints to a sophisticated 21st century audience, it's worth a watch for any fan of capes movies or action film buffs.