Captain America: The First Avenger (2001)

 Captain America: The First Avenger is the third film by Marvel Studios after Thor. The film is about the evolution of a wartime hero Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans) who at first was unfit and later rejected to join the United States army during World War II until he was admitted by Dr. Abraham Erskine (played by Stanley Tucci) who worked on the Super Soldier Project with Howard Stark (played by Dominic Cooper) at the time.

Captain America: The First Avenger is about a man’s journey from being a skinny Steve Rogers to become a national hero, a national and inspirational war hero known as Captain America and battling evil forces under the command of the villainous Nazi general Johann Schmidt (played by Hugo Weaving) or better known as the Red Skull from world annihilation and chaos.

Steve Rogers was injected the “Super Soldier” serum which makes him stronger, muscular and run faster and jump higher than any regular human can. Steve was recruited by the army in the modern world during World War II to stop the evil forces of Hydra under Red Skull and save mankind from total destruction by Red Skull’s evil world domination scheme at all cost.

Captain America movie has a lot of World War II history background and a great fictional story of Steve Rogers who later became Captain America. Also the movie has a lot of action scenes, great fight sequences, ramped up explosive action scenes, and a good emotional love story between Steve Rogers and his love interest and tough woman, Peggy Carter (played by Hayley Atwell). Peggy Carter is recruited by Captain Chester Phillips (played by Tommy Lee Jones) to monitor the enemy’s movements, especially on Johann Schmidt’s Hydra forces that the threatened world peace and humanity as a whole. Red Skull has a rather reddish skull=like face with slits for nostrils. His face is similar to that of a human skull. He is feared by his own loyal Hydra soldiers and anyone who come across him have to be intimidated by the appearance of the Red Skull.

The movie has a lot of great cast of characters, including a recruited soldier and best friend of Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan] before Steve was officially recruited by the U.S. Army.  Furthermore, the movie has a nice tuned music score and a good storyline between the rise of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi forces under the command of Hitler’s deadly right hand man, Schmidt aka Red Skull and his handful of loyal Hydra troops. Also, the Red Skull has a secret weapon that would eventually conquered the world and bring his enemies to their knees, that is the Cosmic Cube or better known in the Marvel Universe as the Tesseract. The Tesseract has the power to decimate an entire army to bits in seconds at will. The Tesseract is so powerful and deadly that the energy radiated from must be fully administered and controlled.  The Tesseract is seen again and was used by Loki to bring his alien race Chitalri army to Earth in 2012’s Marvel ‘s The Avengers movie.

Captain America: The First Avengers stars an assemble cast including Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Stanley Tucci as Dr. Erskine, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, Tommy Lee Jones as Captain Chester Phillips and more. The movie is written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The movie is directed by Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park, the Wolfman). The movie is produced and distributed by Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures.