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Name: Captain America: The First Avenger
Director: Joe Johnston
Genre: action, adventure, science-fiction
Released: 2011
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 6.9

Captain America: The First Avenger has an iRankMovies score of 71.5/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

The one who never gives up awakens.

Release:2011

Runtime:2h 4m

Country:United States

Director:Joe Johnston

Language:English

Genre

ActionAdventureScience Fiction

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Keywords

New York CityNazisuperhero World War IiHeroismBased On ComicSuper SoldierBrooklyn New York City

iRank72

Captain America: The First Avenger rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.9/10· 966K votes

Rotten Tomatoes80%

Metacritic66%

TMDb7/10· 23K votes

With 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.9/10 on IMDb and 66/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Captain America: The First Avenger

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

Cast of Captain America: The First Avenger

Chris Evans
as Captain America / Steve Rogers
Hayley Atwell
as Peggy Carter
Sebastian Stan
as James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes
Tommy Lee Jones
as Colonel Chester Phillips
Hugo Weaving
as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Dominic Cooper
as Howard Stark
Richard Armitage
as Heinz Kruger
Stanley Tucci
as Dr. Abraham Erskine
Samuel L. Jackson
as Nick Fury
Toby Jones
as Dr. Arnim Zola
Neal McDonough
as Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan
Derek Luke
as Gabe Jones

Captain America: The First Avenger facts

Budget: $140M
Box office: $370.6M
Collection: Captain America Collection

Our take on Captain America: The First Avenger

Joe Johnston's 2011 origin story turns Steve Rogers, a sickly young man from Brooklyn, into the super-soldier Captain America during World War II. Determined to serve, he becomes the war effort's most unlikely weapon and must stop the Red Skull, Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, whose organization plans to harness a mysterious device of untold power for world domination. As action, adventure and science-fiction, it embraces a period, pulp-serial spirit, pairing earnest heroism with wartime adventure rather than modern cynicism. The tone is straightforward and old-fashioned in the best sense. It suits viewers who enjoy classic hero journeys and anyone wanting the starting point of this superhero saga.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Aspirational hero arc celebrates moral heroism authentically
•Post-credit stinger establishes exciting MCU continuity
•Brooklyn-to-action-hero transformation delivers satisfying character progression