Movie Review - Captain America: The First Avenger
Movie Trailer - Captain America: The First Avenger
The movie opened in the present day, a group of scientists went to the Arctic and saw an unidentified ship buried under the ice. They entered the ship and saw a shield looking object with red, white and blue colour on it.
The movie then went back in time to March 1942, Nazi officer Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), leader of Nazi science division, Hydra and his men stormed into a church at Tønsberg, Norway and forcefully took away a mysterious tesseract which was believed to possess unlimited powers. While in New York City, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) was rejected in his application to join the army to fight World War II due to his various health issues and physical conditions. He was small, skinny and frail looking.
Later that night, his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) invited him to attend an exhibition of future technologies organized by Stark Industries. There, Rogers attempted to apply for military duty again. However, Dr Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) overheard Rogers and Bucky's conversation and he offered to help Rogers to get a place in the army. Rogers was recruited as a candidate for a "super-soldier" experiment under Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). After a series of tests, Rogers was shortlisted and high recommended by Dr Erskine to be the chosen one for the "super soldier" experiement. At first, Phillips was not very convinced with Erskine's decision but after witnessing Rogers self-sacrificing bravery, he agreed that Rogers was the best candidate to conduct the experiment on. On the night before the experiment, Erskine told Rogers that Schmidt underwent a similar experiment like the one Rogers would be going through but Schmidt version was the imperfect version. After the experiement, Schmidt became a super-human but he suffered from side-effects.
In Europe, Schmidt and Dr. Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) were successful to harness the energy of the tesseract. Schmidt intended to use the power he got from the tesseract to conquer the world. Schmidt also managed to locate Erskine and he sent an assassin to kill him.
In America, Rogers underwent for the super-soldier experiment. He was injected with a special serum and he was placed in a machine that will exposed him to "vita-rays". During the experiment, Rogers screamed in pain and the scientist wanted to abort the plan but Rogers insisted to continue with the experiment. When the procedure was done, Rogers emerged from the machine in his new physical appearance. He became taller and muscular. When everyone came down from the observation room to congratulate Dr Erskine, one of the attendees shot and killed Erskine. It was the assassin sent by Schmidt to kill Erskine. Rogers chase after the assassin and managed to capture the assassin but the assassin committed suicide by biting a cyanide capsule which was hidden in his mouth to avoid being interrogated.
With Erskine's death, the super-soldier formula was lost forever. Rogers would be the only alive sample to proof the success of the serum. U.S. Senator Brandt (Michael Brandon) who was there to see the transformation of Rogers, invited him to tour the nation in a colorful costume and named him "Captain America" to promote war bonds rather instead of being confined to a lab for scientists to attempt to rediscover Erskine's formula.
One day, during his tour, he went to the unit where Bucky was supposed to be in. He found out that Bucky's unit was defeated by Schmidt's forces in a battle. He refused to believe that Bucky was dead. Rogers went on a solo rescue mission with the help of Peggy and Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper). Howard Stark flew the plane to bring him into the enemy's territory. Rogers muscled him way in to Schmidt's HYDRA organization. First, he freed the other captured soldiers and then he went for Bucky who was on an operation table in Schmidt's room. As soon as Schmidt found out that Rogers had arrived in his factory. he took the tesseract and ran away. Rogers went around the area to search for Schmidt. When he found Schmidt, Rogers confronted Schmidt. Schmidt revealed his true feature by removing his human face mask. His real feature was red-colored, skull-like face that's why he was known as the Red Skull. Schmidt ran away in a plane after detonating all the explosive in his factory. Rogers and Bucky met up with the rest of the freed soldiers and they all walked back to the base.
Rogers who briefly saw the attack plan of Red Skull went back and told Phillips about it. Rogers was willing to lead a group of brave soldiers to Red Skull's base to stop his invasion plans. Rogers recruited Bucky, Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough), Gabe Jones (Derek Luke), Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi), James Montgomery Falsworth (J. J. Feild), and Jacques Dernier (Bruno Ricci) into his team of brave soldiers. Their mission was to destroy all the other known Hydra bases. Stark provided Rogers with a new outfit and a shield made of vibranium, which was able to reduce a significant amounts of damage by absorbing vibrations. Rogers and his team attacked and destroyed all of Hydra's bases.
The team then tried to get Zola to gain more information regarding Red Skull. They attacked the train carrying Zola in it. Rogers and Bucky went into the train to search for Zola but they were ambushed upon enterting the train. They were attacked. During the assault, Rogers defeated the Hydra army but Bucky fell of the train. However, he managed to capture Zola.
Phillips interrogated Zola and found out the location of Schmidt's final base. Rogers led an attack on Schmidt's final base to stop him from using his tesseract powered weapons to cause more harm to the citizen. When Red Skull found out that Rogers was in his base, he took the tesseract and attempted to run away again. This time, Rogers grabbed on to Schmidt's jet before it flew off. Rogers entered the jet and fought with Schmidt. During the fight, Rogers broke the tesseract's container. So, Schmidt used his hand to hold on to the tesseract. As soon as he held the tesseract, he got dissolved in a bright light. The tesseract then fell to the floor of the plane, melted through the surface and fell on to Earth.
As there were a lot weapons in the plane, Rogers didn't want to take the risk of landing it in on the airport. He chose to crash the plane in the Arctic. Stark later found the tesseract from the floor of the ocean but he couldn't find the jet that Rogers was on.
Rogers then woke up in a hospital room. He felt something was wrong because the game on the tv was a game that he had attended. He ran outside and he found himself in a strange place. He travelled through time and came to present day. There Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) informed him he had been sleeping for nearly 70 years.
In a post-credits scene, Fury went to find Rogers. He told him that he had a mission for him and also a new team for him.
Movie Trailer - Captain America: The First Avenger
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