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Film: Captain America: The First Avenger
Release: 2011
Captain America: The First Avenger is first up in my first binge of The MCU - and I'll admit I had high expectations. Captain America is one of, if not the, favourite avenger of mine.
The film got off to an incredible start and for the first 50 or so minutes, I was hooked. Although I'm not someone that enjoys war films, or films set in that period, I was really enjoying the build up to Captain America's origin, what he was like as a character before and after his transformation and his motivations as a character.
It was after this when the film began to become less about Captain America's character building, and more the actual action of the story. And I'll be honest, this is where I began to lose interest. I didn't really have any care for the antagonists and I felt myself getting easily distracted.
The last hours I drifted in and out of interest. I just simply wasn't bothered by any of the narrative regarding the antagonists and instead it only really held my full attention when the story shifted to be about Captain America and what he was like as a character.
It wasn't a bad film by any stretch, and I did enjoy it. If I was watching at the cinema I'd probably have enjoyed it less as at home I was able to control where I payed more attention and where I payed less. And in the end my attention was held for most of the film and there was only probably 30 minutes total where I was disinterested.
Score: 6.5/10
For now it's going to sit at an above-average 6.5 and in the orange zone. It wasn't bad, but it just didn't have my full interest. It would have been Green with either a) a more gripping story regarding the antagonists and perhaps more build up to that, or b) complete focus on Captain America and his developments (which admittedly would be the makings for an awful superhero/action film in most people's standards).