Captain America (1990)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Steve Rodgers becomes Captain America and must fight against the Nazi super soldier Red Skull. Captain America is however frozen in time until he awakens in 1990. Red Skull still wishes to fulfil his plan of world domination by becoming the president of the United States. I went into this movie expecting to hate it since that seems to be the general consensus. What I saw was bad on many levels but not what I would call irredeemable.On the positive side the production isn't too bad. The editing is passable except for those awful montage sequences. The cinematography and lighting is not what I would call inept. The acting is okay but the terrible writing makes for some awful line deliveries.However, this movie has quite possibly the worst superhero costume of all time, rivalled by the motorcycle helmet wearing Captain America from the 1979 TV movie. He seems to have prosthetic ears attached to his head and the wings makes his appearance seem comical. The tone is also all over the place. You have Nazis and Germans executing people and at the same time you have a running gag where Captain America pretends to be car sick and hijacks cars. It's bad in a cheesy way. I would say the Fantastic Four 1994 movie was miles better in being faithful to the source material while having an extremely low budget. However, as I said, I did find some little things enjoyable like the action, special effects and even production qualities. I think you will either hate it or find it as a harmless bit of cheesy entertainment and fun.

Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull. How can i describe this film? Well it's bad first of all Red Skull looks awful both in 1943 and 1990 he just looks like a tomato, Captain America is retarded and steals cars for some unknown reason, Ronny Cox is the only good thing from this film but not even he can't save this travesty just the fight scenes with Red Skull and Captain America were awful and for some reason Red Skull knows Kung Fu moves too yeah that happened, the whole origins story is very rushed and totally bland just like the acting and the way that Captain America gets frozen or even when he saves the White House strapped in a missile is so cheesy and so 90's everyone keeps saying that films like Batman Forever, Spawn, Superman 3 and even The Punisher were bad well at least those films did what they meant to do which was to entertain but this film? My god it was awful and thank to god that Captain America: The First Avenger happened in 2011 but this version of the famous Marvel Hero definitely gets an F

Not to be confused with Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Captain America is a cheaply made adaptation of the now famous Avenger, executive produced by the actual Stan Lee. Given a limited release years after it was initially made, Captain America is about the titular hero's (Matt Salinger) early years fighting the Germans and Italians during WWII. After attempting to sabotage Nazi rocket experiments, spearheaded by arch-nemesis The Red Skull (Scott Paulin), Cap is put on ice and is unfrozen in 1990s. He then is caught up in an assassination plot involving the American President (Ronny Cox).Captain America is a lazy, inept, structure-less low-budget film that never truly reaches the dubious heights of "so bad it's good". Unlike the audaciously ridiculous Fantastic Four (1994) film that was supposedly the last straw for Lee, Captain America is just benignly boring. The film is even more painful when you consider that Matt Salinger is actually trying here. He's not strictly speaking bad as Captain America, he's just out of his depth and undermined at every turn by director Albert Pyun's unflattering visuals. Well at least Captain America finally got a real debut in 2011 thus allowing fans to all but ignore this cheap and boring film.

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.