How to make friends, influence people and kill Nazis using performance enhancing drugs. Taking a superhero film seriously is ridiculous but it's not unreasonable to have certain expectations for an enjoyable action adventure. The first two thirds of the film do the job quite well, the CGI pre-steroid hero effects work well except for one scene in a car where he seems to have shrunk to hobbit size. The transformation and initial confrontation with Hydra (because Nazis aren't evil enough, you need an extra evil science based branch) keeps things going along at a decent pace. Then it falls apart with a series of slow motion explosions, a jump on a train with the plucky sidekick which is racing over a bottomless ravine (guess what happens to the sidekick) and a completely unsatisfying finale where the villain (don't do drugs, they make your face go really red and your nose falls off) just disappears into a special effect.
Then you realise that the final third of the film is solely there as a trailer for next years Avengers film. A bit like getting through the cream, custard and fruit layers of a trifle to find they ran out of sponge and used shit instead. Well only a bit like that.
