Agreed, I found him useless too. I was particularly scandalized by his arrow that plugs into a mainframe and hacks it. That made me groan out loud. They tried to add a superhuman component subtley ... at one point he shoots backwards and kills an alien flying by. It was impressive but actually beyond his capabilities. At best, he's a superb marksman but he still has normal human senses.

You should add black widow to this by the way - she was equally useless. This time she was a master interrogator too, but ultimately a well trained operative with fighting skills is as useless as hawkeye. She was totally unimpressive shooting aliens with her guns in the street while Thor was conjuring up lightning storms and Hulk was destroying aliens en masse. Captain America comes close to this level of uselessness, but he barely evades criticism.



The cloaking device bothered me more than the flying aircraft carrier. Apart from that when I saw it fly I assumed they'd extrapolated an energy source from the tesseract. Red Skull managed it by using the tesseract to directly power his flying superfortress.



I hated this too. Most of the world's great physicists agree that if you had to name the top twenty physicists alive, Hawking would not be on the list. Of course, Rogers might have known about Einsten so they needed a substitute and were low on world renowned geniuses.



To be fair, he is utterly uncontrollable and massively destructive. They also wanted to show Banner's struggle with control, and it seems like he only mastered the Hulk at the end.

I still think its one of the best superhero movies ever made, if not the best. I have very little to say about it that is negative. I think its a masterpiece, and the humour was exceptional. I thought Iron Man was so funny.