The biggest flaw isn’t so much the acting, the directing, or the screenwriting (all of which deserve demerits) but that the movie’s meager budget doesn’t allow it to look cinematic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2022

You can't lose watching Captain America.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 13, 2020

Outrageously, excruciatingly dull, dragging out its 97 minutes to a point that time itself more or less ceases to have any meaning.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 15, 2019

The 1990 Captain America shows the viewer, and any aspiring filmmaker, how not to make a superhero movie.

| Nov 15, 2018

Albert Pyun is a competent director of sci-fi and martial arts action movies, but this tough, brooding comic-book fantasy suffers in comparison to other big-budget superhero adventures, and Salinger lacks charisma as the hero.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2016

Captain America may be a bad film, but its true to the source material and its creator is clearly respected.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 3, 2016

For as charming as a piece of 90s nostalgia this movie is, as a whole it's not that good.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2013

Near as awful as previous versions, but it still manages to be lousy.

| May 23, 2013

... a real stiff, a corny piece of nostalgic pulp with cheap action, cheesy dialogue and a charismatically challenged leading man.

| Sep 30, 2011

The movie isn't merely wrong for kids -- it's just all wrong.

| Original Score: F | Jul 21, 2011

Historically, Captain America has always been at something of a loss without a war to fight, and the tale's abrupt switch from anti-fascist heroics to ecological concern takes some force out of the character.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2011

Salinger has some good moments dealing with the cultural shock of his Rip Van Winkle reawakening, but film never takes flight under Albert Pyun's leaden direction.

| Jul 21, 2011

One of the dumbest movies of all time.

| Original Score: F | Feb 3, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 30, 2003

This is what superhero flicks looked like before someone got a clue.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2002