Great Bible Stories Adapted To Germanic Mythology

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2011)

Thor is an extraordinarily well directed movie with fine acting.
Its story line contained many interesting stories worth discussing the plot: Father-Son conflict (Odin-Thor), Life and death of Jesus (Thor sent to earth, fight against the Destroyer), the Antichrist (Loki), Cold War (Ice People against Odin's Heaven), generation conflict (old, wise fighters against hot-headed youth). So this movie is worth watching it with your girl friend as well.
I very much like Kenneth Branagh's kind of staging. It's so outstandingly personal even when scenes become crowded. You immediately identify with all the characters.
Great acting performed by all actors in the movie. I particularly liked Idris Elba who played Heimdall in the movie.
Not to mention the good work of other arts like camera, light, cut.
The story was very exciting. However, it sometimes wasn't conclusive: It's very hard to believe that an unarmed man can easily walk into a place guarded and monitored by a number or armed forces men. And it's also hard to believe that just an agent has this much power of decision.
Moreover, there were a few other things I didn't like:
* The musical score was low of emotion and ambition. In my view it wasn't able to properly augment many scenes appropriately, fighting scenes in particular. From the assignment of instruments used and from composing complexity it becomes apparent that the composer very much lacks classic composing education. The result is far below the result a composer like John Williams would have achieved.
* CGI characters were rather clumsy. Mass scenes at Asgard looked like they had been shot with loads of mannequins. Ice people, too, were rather lifeless. Not to mention the Destroyer, whose movements were not too "metally".
* In the German version the term "destroyer" had not been translated. That very much pulled me out of it. Correctly translating it to "Zerstörer" would have been much more frowning. It's a very well known term from World War II. To me, "destroyer" is much more of a term known from movies like Toy Story.