Back in 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman was released to much acclaim and box-office success. Marvel responded with this insulting attempt. Instead of wasting good money on a snobbish director like Burton, Marvel acquired the services of the fine Albert Pyun, best known for such epic masterpieces as Kickboxer IV: The Aggressor, and the Nemesis and Cyborg films. Putting Pyun in charge of making a Captain America movie was like putting Joel Schumacher in charge of a Batman movie, a mistake so obvious Hollywood only made it twice.

Could this, in fact, be the worst movie ever made? It certainly is fatally flawed in every respect. The acting is not worthy of the word. The story is terminally unbelievable without actually achieving any sense of fantasy. The plot is full of errors that are perhaps more like plot-exit-wounds than mere plot-holes.

The characters are facile, the make-up apalling, the props are jarring, and the special effects are decidedly less than special. The fight scenes would scarcely do justice to a school pantomime.

This movie truly tests the strength of your stomach. It lurches from the mock-violent to the insultingly-stupid, passing through the ghastly-sweet on the way.

J.D. Salinger’s son, Matt Salinger, plays the good Captain, and never before on screen has such a pansy appeared. The rubber of Cap’s mask was too tough to cut ear-holes into, so the producers decided to just attach rubber ears to the exterior of it.

A test-screening was so disastrous that reshooting was required. Stan Lee insisted that this was simply because the movie was so good that people demanded to see more… right.

This film is not available as an official release. It is provided for collectors only, as a curioso object. Comes in the beautiful case shown above, imitating the look of 1970s Marvel Comics covers. Other unreleased and rare Marvel films are also available in this design, so you can build a collection. The spines follow the look of current Marvel trade paperbacks and look great on your shelf.

• Running Time: 97min
• Format: DVD-R
• Language: English
• Subtitles: None
• Video System: NTSC
• Region: 0 (No Region Protection)
• Audio quality: 8/10
• Picture quality: 7/10