Dir: Ivan Nagy
1979
**
Captain America II: Death Too Soon is the follow up to the original made for TV Captain America, released earlier the same year. It is ever so slightly better than the first, mainly due to the fact it doesn't get bogged down with the origin story. Cap gets straight to it and before you know it he's saving old ladies handbags from nasty street hoodlums and doing tricks on his fancy little motorbike. He's also got a high calibre bad guy this time round, played by the most villainous of villeins, Mr Christopher Lee. Unfortunately, the story is rubbish. Death too Soon is an intriguing and catchy title, but when it is revealed that it refers to an evil plan by the bad guy to inflict old age on people via skywriting airplanes it kind of takes the edge off any excitement you may have had. There is a pretty cool scene where Cap's motorbike goes off the edge of a dam but it's pretty void of highlights. However, if this had been on TV on a Saturday night in the mid 80s I would have been all over it. Reb Brown is incredibly likable, it's not really the Captain America of the comics but it's great if you're an Evel Knievel fan you'll probably like it better.
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