Monday, August 1, 2011

Captain America: The First Avenger

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Joe Johnston

Casted by:
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Sebastian Stan as Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes
Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips
Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine
Story:
In March 1942, Nazi officer Johann Schmidt and his men invade Tønsberg, Norway, to steal a mysterious tesseract possessing untold powers. In New York City, Steve Rogers is rejected for World War II military duty due to various health and physical issues. While attending an exhibition of future technologies with his friend Bucky Barnes, Rogers attempts to again enlist. Having overheard Rogers' conversation with Barnes about wanting to help in the war, Dr. Abraham Erskine allows Rogers to enlist. Rogers is recruited as part of a "super-soldier" experiment under Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips and Peggy Carter. Phillips is unconvinced of Erskine's claims that Rogers is the right person for the procedure but relents after seeing Rogers commit an act of self-sacrificing bravery. The night before the treatment, Erskine reveals to Rogers that Schmidt underwent an imperfect version of the treatment, becoming super-human but suffering side-effects.

In Europe, Schmidt and Dr. Arnim Zola successfully harness the energies of the tesseract, intending to use the power to fuel Zola's inventions. Schmidt, having discovered Erskine's location, dispatches an assassin to kill him. In America, Erskine subjects Rogers to the super-soldier treatment, injecting him with a special serum and dosing him with "vita-rays". Rogers emerges from the experiment taller and muscular. After the experiment, one of the attendees shoots and kills Erskine, revealing himself as Schmidt's assassin Heinz Kruger. Rogers pursues and captures Kruger but the assassin commits suicide via cyanide capsule before he can be interrogated.

With Erskine's death the super-soldier formula is lost. Rogers chooses to tour the nation in a colorful costume as "Captain America" to promote war bonds rather than be confined to a lab while scientists attempt to rediscover Erskine's formula. In Italy 1943, while touring to active servicemen, Rogers learns that Barnes' unit was lost in battle against Schmidt's forces. Refusing to believe Barnes is dead, Rogers mounts a solo-rescue attempt with Peggy and Howard Stark flying him behind enemy lines. Rogers infiltrates the fortress belonging to Schmidt's HYDRA organisation, freeing Barnes and the other captured soldiers. Rogers confronts Schmidt who reveals his face to be a mask, removing it to display the red-colored, skull-like face that earned him the nickname "The Red Skull". Schmidt escapes and Rogers returns to base with the freed soldiers.

Rogers recruits Barnes, Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Falsworth, and Jacques Dernier to attack the other known bases belonging to Hydra. Stark provides Rogers with a new outfit and a new, circular shield made of Vibranium, capable of negating large amounts of damage. Rogers and his team attack and destroy all of the known bases. The team later attacks a train carrying Zola. During the assault Zola is captured but Barnes falls from the train and is lost. Using information gathered from Zola, Rogers leads an attack on Schmidt's final base to stop him using his powerful weapons against American cities. Rogers manages to board Schmidt's jet before it takes off and confronts him. During the fight, Rogers damages Schmidt's container for the tesseract. Schmidt physically handles the tesseract, causing him to dissolve in a bright light. The tesseract falls to the floor of the plane, melting through the surface and falling to Earth.

Seeing no way to safely land the plane without risking the onboard weapons detonating, Rogers makes a date with Peggy via radio before purposely crashing the plane in the Arctic. Stark later recovers the tesseract from the floor of the ocean but the aircraft remains undiscovered and Rogers is declared inactive. Rogers awakens in a hospital room. Deducing something is wrong, he flees outside into what is revealed to be present day New York. Rogers is confronted by Nick Fury who informs him he has been "asleep" for nearly 70 years.

In a post-credits scene, Fury approaches Rogers and tells him that he has a mission for him.
L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:
I didn't read any of Captain America's comic before, but hell yeah this is a nice movie. Though i watch it in 3D, but seriously, its not worth as the 3D effect is not that much, so i think its ok if you guys just go for the normal 2D movie instead.

The whole story mention about how Captain America is born and how he transform into such a hottie, oopps, i mean superhero. But from the ending, the possibility of the rest of the actors/actresses to be film in the next movie (except Chris Evans & Samuel L Jackson) is to be zero i can say.

Chris Evans is the best thing to be view in the whole movie, especially his hot body. Pheww... just look at his nipples, so damn delicious :) lol

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