I like these movies :-) Here we are at the beginning of his story, how Captain America was created. Once upon a time there was a kid who really, really, really wanted to be a soldier to defend his country, but his body had another opinion, so he was always rejected :-D
Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) doesn't want to give up , no matter what his friend Bucky (Sebastian Stan) tells him. One day he meets Dr Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci, with a funny german accent) sees something in him "Do you want to kill nazis?" - "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from" and offers the little guy a chance. He sends him to Camp Lehigh (as I could read on the flag) where he meets Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) who knows how to handle stupids, and Colonel Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones :-D ) who at the end of the week will choose one candidate for Erskine project of a super soldier. Rogers is smaller, weaker, but he is smarter and much braver, or maybe not braver, just a good noble person. The scene with the grenade, where all the others took cover while Rogers throw himself on it shouting for the others to run away was something. Of course, it was the more cool because the grenade turned out to be a fake one, which did not explode, otherwise the noble gesture would have blown him up to little bits. Rogers is chosen for the big project, assisted by brilliant Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper). The experiment is completed, but the room is infiltrated, many people including Erskine are killed, and the sierum stolen, so Rogers chase him barefoot, surprised at what his new body can do :-) I particularly liked the bit with the kid thrown in the water who tells him "Go get him! I can swim" :-) just when you thought, will he save the kid or chase the bad guy with a secret formula in his hands that could create a horde of bad super-soldiers?? So Rogers gets him, and he kills himself because he's part of Hydra, an organisation with the obvious motto "cut off one head, two more shall take its place" which is not that original, quite obvious given the name, but still, full of crazy psycopaths. Their leader is Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), the Red Skull after he tried on himself an earlier version of the formula, when the serum wan not yet ready. What it does is amplify everything that is inside, so good becomes great, and bad becomes worse, just like The Mask, to be clear :lol: Steve becomes better, and I'm yet not sure of how they could change him so. I don't mean the body or the height, I mean the face! The face is the same and yet it is not exactly the same, it's different.
Anyway. He's just one man, so the Colonel doesn't want him, yet he's given another assignment, to become a simbol to everyone, to tour cities...he make movies, and wears a colourful uniform until one day he performs in front of soldiers, not the usual crowd of kids and mothers. These soldiers had just returned from an awful mission, where only less than 50 came back, of 200 hundred that went out. Steve learns that Bucky was one of those that didn't make it back, and wants to go looking for him. Alone, 30 miles inside enemy territory, with a little help from Carter and Stark, who fly him as far as they can. Alone, Rogers gets inside the enemy camp, frees all the american soldiers inside giving them all the chance to fight their way out. He also finds Bucky, who has been experimented upon. Steve and a lot of american soldiers make it back to Colonel Phillips base. At the ceremony for Captain America, Stan Lee's in high uniform (maybe a general's uniform?) saying "I thought he'd be taller" mistaking someone else for the captain :lol:
For the new mission, Rogers asks some of the men he saved to go with him. Agent Carter becomes jealous when a blonde throws herself at him and kisses him. Rogers chooses a new shield from Stark's stuff, a prototipe made of vibranium, completely vibration absorbent , and apparently bulletproof :lol:
They all do a lot together, Steve and Bucky always side by side until Bucky falls down to his death.
Dr Armin Zola is captured. On the last attempt to stop and possibly kill the red skull, they chase his plane with a car, and yet Carter thinks giving him a kiss it's worth the risk of losing those few seconds that might make the difference between being able to stop the car and fall down to their death...
Only colonel Phillips "I'm not kissing you" was actually worth it :lol: Schmidt had found the Tesseract and used it for Hydra, to give their weapons more power, but now seems like the Tesseract killed the red skull when he hold it in his hand. The terreract is lost, and Steve is alone on that plane, and decides there's not much time until it reaches New York killing lots of people, so he crashes it somewhere empty. Stark recovers the tesseract and looks for him, but can't find him. When Rogers wake up, they wanted to trick him and us into believing he was found and cured, but they didn't fool him as they didn't fool me - me because I know his story, and him because they played a game from 1941, a bit too early :-) He finds himself in contemporary America, with Nick Fury that tells him he's been asleep for almost 70 years...
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