Platypuschow
Long before Chris Evans took up the shield we had this 1970's "delight", the one often used as a comparison to how far ol' cap has come.Little known fact even this wasn't Captain America's first outing, he goes all the way back to 1944 in a competently made black and white feature.Here we see Steve Rogers origin story and how he becomes Americas most well known super solider. It looks and plays out like an episode of the A-Team and Captain America himself looks seven shades of ridiculous.With a story ripped straight from the pages of a Bond novel, over the top action sequences and a standard 1970's score this is pretty bad stuff.The Good: Has that 70's charmThe Bad:Incredibly cheesyPlenty of plot holesThings I Learnt From This Movie:Captain America has come a long way from a crash helmet and transparent riot shieldI want to see this guy vs Thanos. Why? Because my sadistic side thinks it'd be hilarious
AaronCapenBanner
Before Chris Evans brought the role to the big screen, Reb Brown debuted as Captain America/Steve Rogers, in this limp, mechanical adaptation of the comic book. Plot lurches along without any style or substance, just a stale series of uninteresting character development, before the uninspired action scenes. Oh yes, there was a sequel.You might think that the creators would have learned something from the marvelous "The Incredible Hulk" TV series with Bill Bixby, but this has none of that show's heart or intelligence.Perhaps I'm being too harsh, since it is innocuous enough, but still...Released on DVD as a double feature with Part II, from Shout Factory, on loan from Universal(which also produced "The Incredible Hulk")
cultfilmfreaksdotcom
With a cool motorcycle, blue uniform, and the boomerang shield made of see-through plastic, Captain America reigns: more of a bionic Evel Knievel than the traipsing comic book icon.But first he's Steve Rogers, a budding artist fresh out of the Marines, cruising the coast (in a 1970's van) for good old fashion leisure, but the bad guys want him dead and the good guys want him… super.Reb Brown's a big guy to begin with, so the transformation is nothing like the original, which morphs a skinny wimp into a muscular stud. And Brown's performance is surprisingly monotone given energetic turns in BIG Wednesday, UNCOMMON VALOR and CAGE.But he looks the part, and this TV movie builds up the plot… about a Militant's threat to detonate a neutron bomb… and takes forty five minutes for our hero to assume his identity and kick into gear.Yet the best scenes involve Cap riding that motorcycle around, dodging bullets and beating up thugs. It's that simple... So don't expect anything more and you'll do fine.For More Reviews: www.cultfilmfreaks.com
ctomvelu1
You have to wonder why the producers of this T movie bothered to make it at all, since it has almost nothing to do with the Captain America of the comics. This Captain America is apparently the son of the original Cap, and is given the super-solider treatment after being seriously injured by bad guys looking for secret documents involving his old man. As if this plot isn't bad enough, the new Cap wears a loose variation on the real Cap's uniform, including a motorcycle helmet in place of the winged hood. He also carries a tiny, see-though plastic shield that looks like it wouldn't hold up in a storm, never mind stop bullets. Cap ride around on a motorcycle, righting wrongs and catching up with a bunch of bad guys. Hunky Reb Brown is an OK Cap, but the movie is a dog. A followup effort from 1990 with Matt Sallinger is only slightly better, but that Cap spends most of the flick in street clothes, and comes across as a poor man's James Bond as he pursues the Red Skull. Except this Red Skull is not the Red Skull of the comics. Yeesh.
