Captain America: Death Too Soon, Returns actors Reb Brown and Len Birman to their original roles. This unlike its predecessor focused more on the action and adventure of Captain America as he faces against a unknown foe named Miguel played by iconic character actor Christopher Lee. A revolutionary General of unknown origin demanding to extort money from the US government as he ransoms the lives of the population of Portland.
Sharing the underlying secluded fear of a small town towards an outsider as seen in Jordan Peele's Get out, without elements of horror. Death too soon manages to hold your attention by offering a mystery box of town that is not quite right nor hospitable.
The biggest change was the recasting of an up and coming actress Connie Sellecca who would appear in Arthur Hailey's Hotel and the Greatest American hero (made re-popular by a shirt commonly worn by Sheldon in 'The big bang theory'), two series that would make here synonymous in 80's television and later made for TV movies.
Captain America, the character at this time was usually associated with riding a motor bike and that image was due largely from this movie and the toy marketing that followed. Playing on the 70's stunt hero Evil Knievel, the viewers were given chases and stunts performances on Captain America's superbike including a paraglider sequence. Where as the imagination is not too different from today's fast and furious 9 trailer seeing a car swinging on a bridge cable line like Tarzan. The film was catering to the fan boy base on its modest budget and television restraints. The plot once carried out was very straight forward and no surprising twists or turns, but an attempt to create a well crafted scenario that allows our hero to go this journey and unravel the mystery of a town in order to stop a terrorist type of extortion.
The biggest misstep is the movie's opening, Steve Rogers is man enjoying life along Venice Beach taking to his passion of sketch artistry, and stopping crime on the side. The sequence becomes too dated to its era and is a blurring sore spot for this movie to get any real traction for its audience.
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