I saw Captain America a few days ago despite wanting to see Arrietty, but it's quite hard to convince a group of young males to watch a Japanese animation based on the Borrowers when they're hell-bent on watching a genetically modified super-human blow stuff up, for some reason. It's taken me this long to write anything on it because I really have nothing to say on the subject. This film somehow seems to have broken into new levels of averageness. Usually, saying 'Average' means there is nothing in any regard remarkable about a film. Captain America, however, is remarkable for being just as average as it is. It's as average as a Metacritic review score. Which, for this, incdently a very average 56.
What can I say about it that I haven't already said? Chris Evans is alright, although I wasn't fond of the CGI-ing of his head onto a skinier body, the woman is alright, the special effects are slightly above alright, but then that's to be expected considering the above-average budget, meaning that anything less would be poor. This has no doubt been a rubbish 'review', and I must say that in inverted commas, because I don't feel this has been structured enough to be considered a 'review', but it just felt utterly unremarkable and unambitious. The whole 'blockbuster' thing is almost starting to get on my wick now. Whilst I'm not going to start any campaigns against it, nor boycott them because I'm obviously not perswasive enough to convince anybody to see anything that cost under a gazillion dollars, I'm bored of the idea, bored of the ad campaigns and, most importantly, bored of the films. While this wasn't as bad as Pirates of the Carebean 4 when it comes to the most boring 'Blockbuster' I've seen this year, it certainly wasn't anything inspirational and lacked the original, thought-provoking angle on the base material the X-Men films have taken, which I was harsh on by virtue of it being my first film I spoke about on this blog, and therefor meaning it didn't get a 'proper' review. The 'America needs an icon' is a good idea, but the filmmakers did nothing to improve on that, so, as such, it gets a very average score of...
5 Toby Jones doing German accents out of 10
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