CAPTAIN AMERICA

Film was better than I thought it would be.  Chris Evans does a nice job.

I didn't get the feeling though that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes were best friends.  They needed to play up the relationship and hit it much harder.  They made a mistake by having Steve Rogers actually looking up to Bucky in the beginning.  That throws off the whole dynamics of their friendship. 

Also, if you're going to change the fact that Bucky and Steve don't perish at the same time, you've got to  exploit the emotions that must be exploding out of Steve as he goes after the Red Skull.  They needed to play up the drama there.  But since we never really get a sense of how tight Steve and Bucky are, it's a wasted motivational point.

Stanley Tucci and Tommy Lee Jones are great as usual.  Toby Jones is pretty much wasted in his role.  

I liked the scene where Steve outthinks the other soldiers in capturing the flag.  However, I should've loved that scene.  I know what they're trying to do.  Captain America fights with his brain as much as with his brawn but the writers needed to come up with a much more inventive and visual way of showing us this.

Both THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA could've been great this summer.  Instead, both are simply passable with several good scenes.  Hopefully, THE AVENGERS will get it right.