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How sad is this?

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

During WWII, a brave, patriotic young man undergoes a series of painful experiments that turn him into a super-human. He takes the persona of red, white, and blue wearing Captain America and heads to Nazi Germany to do battle with a character known as Red Skull. Red Skull is a similarly enhanced man. Captain America loses the battle and ends up frozen in ice in the wilds of Alaska. Fifty or so year later, Caps body is found. After he's un-thawed and regains his senses, he discovers that his old foe, Red Skull, has taken a secret identity, but is still up to his old tricks. His latest plot involves kidnapping the President of the United States so he can implant a controlling device in his head. Cap will once again try to stop Red Skull.While not a total disaster, the 1990 version of Captain America isn't what I'd call a "good" movie. My main problem is with the script. It's what I'd call lazy. There is no logic behind much of what happens on-screen. I'm going to limit this to two or three examples of what I'm talking about. Otherwise, this could go on forever. First, Cap is thawed in Alaska. As he's walking through Canada, a reporter from Washington, driving a pick-up truck, just happens to be in the right place at the right time and almost literally runs in to Cap. Yeah, sure. To stretch believablity even further, a gang of baddies from Italy, who are also searching for Captain America, miraculously discover his whereabouts at almost the exact same moment. What are the odds that these people would find a lone man on foot in the wilds of Canada at the same time? It's just stupid. The second example of poor, lazy writing and a lack of logic involves the "crew" Red Skull sends to take out Captain America. You'd think that a real bad dude like Red Skull would have an army of henchmen at his disposal. But for some bizarre reason, he doesn't. Instead, he sends his 20-something daughter, her model friends, and their boyfriends to deal with his mortal enemy. I can't think of a less threatening looking group of supposed killers.For my third example, I'll mention the aftermath of the Preident's kidnapping. Captain America and his little girlfriend are looking for the President, but they appear to be alone. Where in the world is the Secret Service? Where are the Italian police? Where is the military? If the Preident of the USA were to actually be kidnapped, almost everything in the entire world would come to a complete halt. Instead, things in Italy, where the President was kidnapped, seem to be going on as if nothing happened. Not very likely and, again, stupid.Add these problems I have with this dog of script to some pretty bad acting, poor special effects, a mind-numbingly ineffectual Captain America, and lame fight choreography and you've got a bad movie on your hands. While I did enjoy bits and pieces of the film, the whole is so bad I cannot give Captian America a positive rating.

I realize that almost all of the bad superhero movies I've seen ("Catwoman", "Steel") were all based on DC properties. I knew I simply had to watch this movie if only because it's the lowest rated film based on a Marvel comic on this entire website. I think my old worst Marvel movie was "Daredevil" and this is easily worse. At least it's a step up from "Killer Tomatoes Eat France!". There are simply so many things wrong with this movie and I am so glad they made a good movie with "Captain America: The First Avenger". While that personally isn't one of my favorite Marvel movies, it's great to compare the two and how the new one is so much better.This one makes the mistake of having a third of it set in World War II, instead of the whole movie. This was set up much better in the recent movie. The special effects are quite poor, with Captain America's shield looking like a giant Frisbee. They couldn't even get the Red Skull right. He has a nose in this movie for some reason, even though it's obvious skulls don't have full noses. He didn't have ears, so why did they get that right but not his nose? There's a scene where Captain America grabs him and the Red Skull cuts off his own hand. Why not just cut Captain America's hand off? The Captain himself is weak and a jerk in this movie. He steals a good guy's car and just leaves him alone on the road! Later, he steals another car. He's easily beaten by the Red Skull when he first appears. This is one pathetic superhero. The Red Skull even forgets that he read a newspaper that the Captain was frozen for decades! He spends most of this movie not even as a skull. They could have at least said he wore a mask instead of some insane plastic surgery. The movie goes on too long and its climax is boring. The Captain was supposed to have polio before the experiment, but he's a perfectly capable tall human being before! This fails on all levels and I have never seen a great comic book company go so low. There's a reason superhero movies are so popular nowadays. They're actually good! *1/2

The reasons why, are very clear. This low-budget action film is one of the worst comic book movies ever made, and that's saying a lot. Loosely based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name by writers-artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. The movie tells the story of Captain America/Steve Rogers (Matt Salinger) having to save the President of the United States, Thomas Kimball (Ronny Cox) from the evil arch enemy, Red Skull/Tadzio de Santis (Scott Paulin). Without spoiling the movie, too much, this film was infamous for a lot of big changes, they did with the comic book characters. First off, they change where Steve Rogers, used to live. Anybody, who readt comics books, know that the place, where Rogers grew up has always been the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. However, in this version, it was turn into Los Angeles, California. It was really jarring to see, Steve Rogers as a California Kid. Not only did that not help, but being played by the son of fame author J. D. Salinger made it worst. Matt Salinger was very mediocre as the lead. He has this puzzling look to him, as if he doesn't know, what he is doing. He really didn't do much, in the film, besides, looking confused, running away, badly fake-acting sick, and stealing cars/bikes. Plus, he really didn't had any chemistry, with his co-stars, at all. He was very stale. Another big change from the comics, is how they handle, Steve Roger's love-interest. While, the character of Bernice Stewart (Kim Gillingham) is a composite of Bernie Rosenthal and Peggy Carter from the comics; this new character never, share much screen time with Rogers to establish, their relationship. It really didn't seem, like they were supposed to be in love. Instead, the movie quickly, tries to force down, the love relationship with her daughter Sharon Cooperman (Also played by Kim Gillingham). Like Stewart, her character is based on a comic book character of Sharon Carter. While Kim Gillingham makes a somewhat alright female lead. She was a bit annoying at times. In the end, the worst change, these filmmakers did to the Captain America lore, was with the villain of the piece, Red Skull. Instead, of being an evil German Nazi agent and Hitler's successor named Johann Schmidt. They made Red Skull, Italian, and a tragic figure named Tadzio de Santis. Don't get me wrong, I know that adaptation have to change a few things to make it, work with the movie format, but doesn't it seem, a bit odd, to see Red Skull, not being a red skull for most of the film. I understand, they didn't had the budget for the Red Skull make-up, but couldn't they bring back, his original look, back toward the end. After all, isn't Red Skull being Red Skull, what I came here to see. Anyways, it was also odd to see that Skull was not able to conquer America, even with Captain America's absence, during most of the film's timeline. It doesn't add up. Not only that, but I really can't buy that Red Skull, couldn't get his hands on a Nuclear missile quicker, despite working for Military–industrial complex for years, before Captain America suddenly woke up. It doesn't make sense. Anyways, another problem with this film, is its tone. It's really gritty in certain scenes and way too lighthearted in others. It really feels unbalanced. Plus, it doesn't help, that the film feels foreign than American. It didn't help that most of the film was filmed in Yugoslavia and most of the supporting actors sport a European accent. If you thought, that was bad, then you haven't watch the action. Every action scene in this film was very badly edited, or too slow & dull to be compelling. It even had the nerves, to film in deep pitch black, where nowhere saw, what was happening on screen. To make it, worst, Captain America's weakness is also show to have some imbalances. A good example is how Captain America can easily get knock out by a soda, but not by a car. I guess, his weakness, only begin to affect him, when it convenience to the plot. Also, how did he survive the missile blast, and not freeze to death in Alaska. Better yet, how did, they find him in the middle of nowhere!? This movie had way too much, unrealistic conveniences, and Deus ex machina moments to make this film, seem somewhat real. Its reasons like this, is why 1990's 'Captain America' is disappointing. It's a movie, that too embarrassingly over-the-top and stupid to be seen. No wonder, why it was never given a widespread US theatrical release, & went straight to VRS/cable TV in 1992 after some financial delays. However, it was given a limited theatrical release in late 1990 in the UK, where the majority of audience kinda dislike it. I can understand, why. This wasn't the version that director Albert Pyun and writers, Stephen Tolkin and Lawrence Block wanted to put out. After conflicts during the production process, the studio altered the movie quite heavily and the final cut didn't have much in common with Pyun's original version. Furthermore, the scheduled theatrical release was postponed several until the movie was released direct-to video in 1992. In the end, this superhero movie turn out to be mostly boring. Yet, there is a director's cut, out there, and it's not any better. In the end, go see 2011 film, 'Captain America: The First Avenger' over this. That would entertain you. Overall: I really can't recommended this movie. It's not one of those, 'It's so bad, it's good' type of a movie. It's just bad. A really bad, bad film.

(38%) Just before the days of mega budget, effect ridden, super blockbuster Marvel comic book movies, the world had this, and compared to the brilliant Batman movie released around the same this is pretty weak. What this rather forgettable movie does show though is how far these movies have come in quite a short period of time. The most notable aspect of this is how old and dated it looks. Its release was delayed and it really shows as this feels more like an early 80's movie than an early 90's one. Matt Salinger as the title role gives a dull performance throughout, particularly for a man that not only was given super powers, but frozen in time for decades, as he may as well be doing his taxes. Couple that with a plot that is very loose around the edges and your left with a movie that can only be enjoyed as a curiosity piece and nothing more.