Captain America

• USA • 1979 • 97m •

• Directed by: Rod Holcomb. • Starring: Reb Brown, Len Birman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Robin Mattson, Joseph Ruskin, Lance LeGault, Frank Marth, Steve Forrest, Chip Johnson, James Ingersoll, Jim B. Smith, Jason Wingreen, June Dayton. • Music by: Pete Carpenter, Mike Post.

When a commercial artist is almost murdered by spies looking for his late father's secrets, he is saved in surgery when the FLAG formula is injected into him. This serum not only healed him but also gave him tremendous strength and lightening reflexes. To help him retaliate for his attack, a government agency equipments him with a special motorcycle loaded with gadgets and a detachable shield is not only bulletproof, but can be thrown as a offensive returning weapon. Thus armed, he battles against the nation's enemies as the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America.

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Way back in 1979 when I was a kid, I watched part of this movie when it was originally broadcast on television. Although I was quite young and didn't have a lot of knowledge of comic books, all the same I confidently said to myself, "This is not Captain America!" Just now I finished rewatching this movie, and having learned a lot more about the comic book character Captain America in the years that have past, I see that this movie is even less faithful to the comic book character than I originally thought as a kid. Despite Stan Lee being listed as a consultant in the closing credits, everything you know about Captain America is thrown out the window and the movie comes with its own origin story. Captain America rides a motorcycle! Captain America has a plastic shield! You have to wonder why the producers of the movie bothered to get the rights to the character if they decided to ignore practically everything established about the character.

Well, maybe the movie could still have worked despite betraying the origins of the title character. But it fails in every way you can think of. It looks really cheap, the dialogue is simplistic, the story is lame-brained, and the action (what little there is) is totally drained out of any possible excitement.

The only possible reason to see this movie is if you want to see that the 1990 Albert Pyun directed movie adaptation of Captain America is not as terrible as you might think it to be.

Review by Wizard-8 from the Internet Movie Database.

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