Captain America is the kind of film my Grandfather would love. The setting is a romanticised 1940s United States; all desaturated colour and soft focus. It's the quintessential 'look' of a time that didn't really look that way and moreover, didn't really exist. Men were GI's and the girls were cute admin assistants (albeit some can rise to higher ranks without drawing too much attention). The Nazis were pure evil and things blowed up real good."

Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is a frail young man who wants desperately to join the war efforts, but is repeatedly turned down because of his diminutive size. Refusing to take no for an answer, Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) extends him an opportunity to serve his country by way of an experimental procedure which if successful, will turn him into a super soldier - the U.S. secret weapon to fight Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) and the might of the Nazis. He can now run faster, jump higher and longer than any normal human, but moreover he can become a symbol for liberty and justice - a rallying call for the allied cause.



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