Never thought I'd heard "Siegfried's Funeral March" (my candidate for "greatest piece of music of all time") in a comic book movie, but it is indeed part of the soundtrack. In fact, its use underscores the biggest flaw in CA: TFA, that the character of Johann Schmidt/Red Skull was not fully developed to reach his full dramatic potential and the 'showdown' with Cap wasn't all that it could have been. It's great they made CA: TFA a full two-hour movie, but a lot of the scenes developing Steve/Cap's character could have been trimmed a minute or so and redistributed to showing us the early Skull years, how he was a nobody like Steve Rogers before his 'big break' to become the Skull ala Rogers' opportunity to become Cap. Weaving was good as the Skull but he wasn't given the chance to breathe full life into the character and have him establish the presence he did with Agent Smith in the Matrix movies and as V in V for Vendetta. CA: TFA is a good film even though so much is changed from the comics; Hydra as the secret society behind the Nazis, Bucky as Cap's old friend who dies prematurely. I did enjoy the 'trippy' ending where Cap realizes the baseball radio broadcast is fake and breaks out of the phony hospital room, for a minute I didn't know what was going on. If you're going to see it, stay for the end of the credits to see a new scene a tease trailer for The Avengers, which should be great.
3 out of 5 shields for Captain America: The First Avenger.
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