Good start, but then it gets ruined

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is a sequel to the made for television movie "Captain America", which was released later in the same year as the first movie, and things haven't improved that much. True, this sequel has the advantage that it doesn't have to explain the origin of its hero, and it has a bit more action than the first movie, but that's about it when it comes to improvements. Like the first movie, it moves really slowly for the most part, and in the few moments where there is some action, it feels very sluggish and not the least bit exciting. It also has a cheap feeling like the first movie, with obvious shooting on studio back lots and other inexpensive locations. Sometimes it's stupid enough to provoke a few unintended laughs, but for the most part it's tiresome inanity. If you are still curious about the movie because Christopher Lee is in it, be aware that it's obvious that Lee had his limited number of scenes knocked off in two days of shooting at the most.

This is an awful movie, much worse than its prequel "Captain America" from the same year, 1979. The action scenes are ridiculous, the soundtrack is horrible (perhaps the worst I have ever listened, together with Captain Battle's) and acting is as bad as in the previous Captain America TV film.Besides that, the words "terrorism" and "revolution" are used as synonyms, and the hero attacks workers in the harbor because there is a chance that they are the ones who deal with illegal commodities (but off course it was possible that they were innocent!).Everything is bad in "Captain America II: Death Too Soon", in spite (or not) of Christopher Lee (yes! he did not act badly) as the villain.

Reb Brown returns as Captain America/Steve Rogers in another stale and lifeless adaptation of the comic book. Plot is uninspired and forgettable, though again the whole thing is innocuous, so may have some nostalgic value, but "The Incredible Hulk" it is not!(That second pilot film, "Death In The Family" got it right.) Christopher Lee plays the villain, intent on world conquest of course, but this part is beneath him, and he does seem bored by the whole thing; this actor is a horror film legend(Hammer Film studio veteran with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy to his credit, among many others) so to see him in this is just sad.Marvel Films would have greater success many years later it seems with Chris Evans!

Just watched this, the second Captain America TV movie from the late '70s starring Reb Brown, on YouTube. Since Cap has more of a presence here that ups the entertaining quotient quite a bit as does the appearance of Christopher Lee as a villain named General Miguel. He wants to hurry-up an aging process on some people in exchange for some money from the U.S. government. There's actually quite some good scenes of a lamb seen already dead from the formula and seeing Lee get his comeuppance at the end was also effective. But the fights are as cheesy as in the last entry and that not-big-enough shield of Cap's is soooo slow to work as an effective boomerang weapon. My favorite campy moment was when he was at that prison trying to escape when he decides to throw his motorcycle up in the air (with the appropriate slo-mo film speed and deliberately weird sound effects) to the sidewalk way up above and makes a perfect landing with it and then jumps way up high for the same effect. That was obviously an inspiration from "The Six Million Dollar Man" which like this film was from Universal. Before I end this review, I have to note that the female scientist played by Heather Menzies in the previous movie is now played by Connie Sellecca-years before she was cast in "The Greatest American Hero"-but unlike there, this doctor doesn't seem to have a relationship with Cap or his alter ego, Steve Rogers. So on that note, Captain America II: Death Too Soon is worth a look.