Eh?

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2012)

I don't get it.
Not that it was a bad movie. It was fun. It was okay.
But some surprisingly poor filmmaking. It doesn't help that I loathe hand-held camera. You spend all this money and then muddy up the shots with a hand-held? It's the cancer on the testicles of cinematography. Buy a dolly, or tripod or Steadicam.
I'm just glad that I didn't see this in 3D (which is another head-scratcher for me). Stargate or Independence Day was shot better. Any Hong Kong action movie is shot better. Any Jackie Chan movie is shot better.
The story was better than average. A good amount of very bad and stilted dialog, though. Loki's ulterior motive on being captured was amazingly transparent.
Acting was generally good. I don't know if you call what Downey does as "acting". It's him being charming, which works most of the time. But Scarlette? A looker but not getting much better at her "craft".
And I thought it was just silly to see her face-off with the alien invasion with a handgun.
And did Hawkeye's arrows magically replenish themselves 3, 4, 5 times during the final battle? Hemmesworth will be a very good actor in ten years. But he's okay now. But too small to be Thor, though.
And please! How was the final battle not a carbon copy of Transformers 3?
I liked Serenity. And Cabin in the Woods. But I think Josh was in over his head on this.