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The Han Solo routine should really have been reserved for the pre-credits of The Avengers shoving Cap into cold storage at the close of his solo debut is a bush league dramatic error вЂ“ if nobody your hero saves survives to the final credits, his mission is meaningless. None of this would cause lasting damage were it not for the modern-day bookends that make for a miserable climax and rob Cap of his overdue glory. After Stan Lee defrosted him for the Avengers in 1964, Cap became interesting as an old-school gent marooned in the coarse present вЂ“ Joss Whedon will get to play with these dynamics next year but Johnston just gets the plastic action figure to play with. Plus, poor patriotic Cap turns out to be a stiff. The plotting becomes choppy, the spectacle is muddled by far too many characters and the all-important set-pieces are a bit pedestrian вЂ“ Bond would never zip-line onto a high-speed Alpine train just to stage a shootout in a corridor.

Once Rogers is pitched into battle, however, the movie loses its footing. The self-evident swagger culminates in the movie's best sequence - a winning piece of metafiction that pegs the creation of 'Captain America' to war bonds propaganda and allows Johnston to wink at the original Joe Simon-Jack Kirby comics before moving on. Johnston is in his element recreating the retro-futurism of period sci-fi and the transformation of the excellent Evans from puny punchbag to man-mountain is a fantastic coup de theatre. Cutting between Rogers' trials on the home front and the terrible triumphs of Schmidt in Europe, the narrative lines are sharply drawn, the pacing unhurried and a platoon of quality scene-chewers are deployed in classic character parts that require zero nuance.ДЈD murk aside, it all looks mighty swell. entry into WWII the unforgettable comic book cover image displayed a young hero, with the American flag on his chest, punching Adolf Hitler square in the jaw. In reaching for this Indy-ideal, the movie begins confidently. Captain America (the Super Soldier alter ego of young patriot Steve Rogers) marked his first Marvel appearance in March of 1941, eight months prior to the U.S. Johnston also won an Oscar for his SFX work on Raiders Of The Lost Ark and itвЂ™s Spielberg's benchmark - rather than, say, The Dark Knight - thatвЂ™s clearly the model here. MarvelвЂ™s matchmaking of director to material may not appear as astute as hitching Shakespearean Ken to Thor but Cap is a generation older than Spidey and JohnstonвЂ™s Saturday-morning-serial sensibilities have been his signature since The Rocketeer.

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Where Matthew Vaughn's take on X-Men was pure '60s spy caper, Joe Johnston's Captain America is a boy's-own '40s war story, full of derring-do, knockout dames and dastardly Nazis. Like this year's X-Men: First Class, The First Avenger finds fresh wrinkles in the well-worn superhero origin story by setting the action in the film-period of the character's comic-book birth.