Review of Captain America: The First Avenger

I've enjoyed some of the Marvel comics franchises, and I was really getting into this when it seemed to take an "ordinary" or "mediocre" turn. Not sure exactly where I felt it, but the film never really made me care. Kudos to Hugo Weaving for being his usual bad self, but I thought his character here was fairly lacking. Hayley Atwell is beautiful but her actions were "comically" predictable. Kudos for the graphics guys that transformed Chris Evans, but I never came to identify with him. Once he was the Captain, there seemed to be no angst, and that made his transformation less interesting and compelling. If you generally like the Marvel stuff, I'm sure you'll like this one. However, it felt like a cheat in order to bring "The Avengers" to the screen with some pre-establishment background. My favorite in the Marvel franchise is still X-Men 2, but I must say I haven't seen all of them.