I finally saw Captain America The First Avenger on invitation of a friend. I thought it was all right. It was exactly what I expected it to be. I had avoided it for the longest time out of disinterest: despite liking the MCU house style, I only ever watch MCU movies if the characters interest me. Captain America is a weird case where I do enjoy reading his comics lots and lots, but what I like about Cap is how he's kind of a Golden Age superhero transported to modern times. I wasn't really interested in seeing a "Cap in WW2" story.
But it was okay. Didn't blow me away but featured some nice performances and action sequences and especially Chris is always exceedingly charming as Cap. But other than that, it ticked a whole lot of boxes that are standard MCU fare, even if it was one of the first ones.