First off i am a big fan of the wild & wicked Director ALBERT PYUN, he has created some great Gems within the low-budget B-movie genre such as my favourite film of his, Van Damme's CYBORG (1989) it's also one of my personal favourite films that i grew up watching & loving, it's in my all time top 10.
Now Albert Pyun has done some too weird crud too but more often than not he creates something bizarrely fun & watchable & he does that on a tiny budget so it's impressive.
Albert Pyun's CAPTAIN AMERICA is not terrible like many have said, i do remember seeing this on t.v as a kid so it's remained an image in the back of my head for years. I got the dvd now & it's rated a "PG" but to be honest it's too dark & grim to be a "Kids film" it's opening of a family being slaughtered by Nazi machine-gun fire is very dark & that sets the dull tone for the rest of the film really, everything is dull & gritty & nothing is colourful or bright not even Captain's superhero costume!!! There's some goofy humour-bits but it's mainly humourous because of some of the cheesy acting but we do get some classy veteran stars amongst the cast with Ronny Cox (Deliverance) & Ned Beatty (Deliverance) & Captain America himself Matt Salinger, who made a good Cap, i liked his look & he did a decent acting & was decent in the role & his costume was decent too. Now this was a fairly low-budget production so it's not gonna look all slick & Amazing like today c.g.i Marvel films but it's limited budget actually works for it's dark look at the world & it's atrocities such as Assassinations & murder, like i said the film has a dark tone even when it's not trying too. The film has a grainy look to it probably due to a the low-budget or just because it's an old relic of it's time, there's a very European texture to everything (it was filmed in Europe) but still shows it's Americana when Cap is on home territory & the film has an old skool Cold-war spy Thriller feel. This Cap is very different from what we all know & love from Chris Evans version of the character in the MCU, here Salinger's version is a very lost guy who seems to not be hugely heroic or action-packed & comes across traumatised by everything (as you would be) & he's actually quite enjoyable & goofy at times like when he pretends to feel sick so the person pulls over & he quickly runs back to the car & drives off leaving them behind lol he does it twice!!!
Matt Salinger really does the lost-& lonely-man from another time really well & one scene is actually emotional, a scene where Cap runs from the beach to his old neighbourhood street & to his old house where the love of his life lived with him before the war, he bumps into her daughter & then she comes to the door & it's quite shocking & sad!!! The action scenes are pretty decent but the first half is pretty boring & dull right up until Cap gets defrosted in 1993. Red skull looks really good. The music is dreary & too slushy & often the movie feels like a t.v movie drama but all in all it's solid enough in it's cheesiness to enjoy sometimes
Matt Salinger really does the lost-& lonely-man from another time really well & one scene is actually emotional, a scene where Cap runs from the beach to his old neighbourhood street & to his old house where the love of his life lived with him before the war, he bumps into her daughter & then she comes to the door & it's quite shocking & sad!!! The action scenes are pretty decent but the first half is pretty boring & dull right up until Cap gets defrosted in 1993. Red skull looks really good. The music is dreary & too slushy & often the movie feels like a t.v movie drama but all in all it's solid enough in it's cheesiness to enjoy sometimes