The patriot among superheroes returns to the screen. Starring Chris Evans as Captain America and Hugo Weaving as the bad guy.

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Weakened by WWII, the US recruits every young man on two legs. Only the weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) isn’t accepted, even after several attempts. Instead, he’s hired by a German scientist in exile (Stanley Tucci) for a top secret experiment. The rail-thin young man is injected with a blue liquid which turns him into a red, white & blue muscleman and secret weapon against the Nazi psychopath Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving).

"Captain America"’s greatest weakness is its story, written for hardcore fans and not for the general public. In contrast to Iron Man, Captain America requires audiences to be familiar with the other "Avengers" comics and movies. In addition, the portrayal of the Nazis is implausible: Hugo Weaving has an indefinable Euro-accent, and other Germans are played by Italian-American Stanley Tucci and Englishman Toby Jones, which doesn’t do anything for the movie’s authenticity.